Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
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- 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
Era
Ghosts in the attic
Jenner's House, Wellcome Trust
2009
Ghosts witches and worthies of the Royal Mile
Ken Laird
1973
Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative
Cyril O’Regan
2002
Great news from Middle-Row in Holbourn, or, A true relation of a dreadful ghost
1680
Haunted houses
Eric Maple, Lynn Myring
1979
Haunting and alternative realities in contemporary Tunisian film
Sanabel Abdel Rahman
2026
History of a case of spectral illusions, with subsequent loss of memory of words and names, with the appearances on dissection
James Craig
1836
Irish ghosts
2001
Japanese bogies
Andrew Lang
1974
Life after death, or, The history of apparitions, ghosts, spirits or spectres
1758
Margaret Campbell's Ghosts of Cumbria's castles and halls
Margaret Campbell
1984
Mirabilis annus secundus, or, The second part of the second years prodigies
1662
News from Pannier-alley, or, A True relation of some pranks the devil hath play'd with a plaster-pot there
1687
News from Puddle-Dock in London, or, A Perfect particuler of the strange apparitions and transactions that have happened in the house of Mr. Edward Pitts next door to the still at Puddle-Dock
1674
Old Ireland's misery at an an [sic] end. Or, The English empire in the Brazil's restored.
1752
Old Ireland's misery at an end: or, The English empire in the Brazils restored.
1752
Poltergeist over England
Harry Price
1945
Rockin' ghosts
Little Gerhard
1958
Scottish ghosts
2011
Strange and wonderful news from Chippingnorton, in the county of Oxon
1679
Strange news from Barkshire of an apparition of several ships and men in the air, which seemed to the beholders to be fighting
1679
Strange news from Lemster in Herefordshire
1679
The Chatto book of ghosts
1994
The End of Borley rectory, " the most haunted house in England "
Harry Price
1948