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
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
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
おばけの歴史
江馬, 務
1951Japanese
おばけ・妖怪・幽霊…
兵庫県立歴史博物館
1987Japanese
おばけ・幽霊のなぞ
斎藤, 浩美, 田森, 庸介
1982Japanese
お化けと幽霊
大高, 興
1978Japanese
お化けについてのマジメな話
平野, 威馬雄
1974Japanese
お化けは生きている
平野, 威馬雄
1974Japanese
浮世絵お化け屋敷
太田記念美術館
2024Japanese
浮世絵の幽霊
粕, 三平
1973Japanese
絵とマンガで見せる幽霊ばなし
1987Japanese
鬼 ; 幽霊新論
石橋, 臥波, -1922, 田中, 祐吉, 志村, 有弘
1998Japanese
A Most strange and dreadful apparition of several spirits & visions
1680
A Narrative of the demon of Spraiton
1683
A Relation of a strange apparition in an ale-house next doore to the White Horse, against Sommerset-House in the strand
1641
A Strange and wonderfull discovery of a horrid and cruel murther committed fourteen years since upon the person of Robert Eliot, of London, at Great Driffield in the East-Riding of the county of York
1662
A Wonderful relation of a strange appearance of the devil in the shape of a lion, to a popish novice, not far from Redborn in Hertfordshire
1680
A full and true relation of the examination and confession of W. Barwick and E. Mangall, of two horrid murders
1690
A strange and wonderful relation from Shadvvel or, The devil visible
1674
A strange, true, and dreadful relation, of the devils appearing to Thomas Cox a hackney-coach-man
1684
A true account of divers most strange and prodigious apparitions, seen in the air at Poins-Town in the county of Tipperary in Ireland, March the second, 1678/9
1679
A true and impartial account of the apparition of John Freeman, Esq; to a young lady at Dawney-Court, in Buckinghamshire.
1696
A true and impartial relation of a wonderful apparition that happened in the royal camp in Flanders, the beginning of this instant September 1692
1692
A true and most dreadfull discourse of a woman possessed with the Deuill
1584
A true relation of the dreadful ghost appearing to one John Dyer in VVinchester Yard
1691
A true relation of the horrid ghost of a woman, which hath frequently been seen in various habits, in the house of Nicholas Broaday, at the Three Mariners in Depthford
1673