Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,446
- Earliest
- 1016
- to 2026
- Read free
- 40%
- 971 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,349
- Metadata match79
- Query match14
- Source classification (retained through merging)4
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Key subjects
- Ghosts494
- Fiction335
- Apparitions332
- Ghost stories258
- Apparitions and miracles197
- Haunted houses152
- Juvenile fiction130
- Haunted places129
- History122
- Gespenst107
- Children's fiction102
- Early works to 180097
- Fantômes89
- Poltergeists88
- Scotland65
- Supernatural65
- Horror tales60
- Social Sciences60
- Horror stories58
- holy ghost53
- occultism52
- Art51
- Short Stories51
- Fiction, horror46
Top languages
- English1,410 · 58%
- French339 · 14%
- German209 · 9%
- Spanish103 · 4%
- Japanese57 · 2%
Notable authors
All authors- Robert Lawrence Stine29 in this tradition54 books
- Charles Dickens22 in this tradition29 books
- Daniel Defoe16 in this tradition31 books
- Ludwig Lavater12 in this tradition19 books
- Augustin Calmet12 in this tradition18 books
- Joseph Glanvill11 in this tradition19 books
- 叶兴阳双语音标有声读物10 in this tradition23 books
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling10 in this tradition13 books
- Richard Baxter9 in this tradition29 books
- Algernon Blackwood8 in this tradition13 books
- Hans Holzer8 in this tradition13 books
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8 in this tradition11 books
2,446 books
100 most haunted places in Scotland
Tim Donald
2008
A Christmas carol in prose
Charles Dickens, Hubert Hassmann
1843
A Full and true account of a strange apparition
1685
A gallery of ghosts
Donald Goddard Wing
1967
A handful of ghosts. (Stories.)
George Herbert Bushnell
1945
A haunting of ghosts and an unsolved mystery of St Andrews
Helen Cook
1983
A night at the Bell Inn
1850
A relation of the strange apparition of the five Jesuits lately executed at Tyburn upon the account of treason
1680
Airyformia; or, Ghosts of great note
David Erskine
1825
An Account of the apparition of the late Lord Kilmarnock to the Rev. Mr. Foster
1747
An account of the late wonderful American vision, exhibiting the judgements that must shortly come to pass
1791
Authentic account of the appearance of a ghost in Queen-Ann's County, Maryland
1807
Can ghosts arise? The answer of Itu. [Illustrated. With a map.]
A. B Macdonald
1946
Chambers ghosts and spirits
2008
Chemical Ghosts
P. L.; id_orcid 0000-0002- Manning
2012
Christmas Books
Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton
1907
Cock Lane
1762
Dixie Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South
Frank McSherry, Charles Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg
1988
Drums and syringes
Ellen Kristvik
1999
Essay on superstition: being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances
William Newnham
1830
Ghost tales from 'Blackwood'
1969
Ghosts
1999
Ghosts =
Diane Maclean
1999
Ghosts galore
1988