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
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
Account of a fifth case of spectral illusion
1830
Account of a remarkable case of spectral illusion, in which both the eye and the ear were influenced
1830
Account of other four cases of spectral illusion
1831
Amusement for good children, by G.S.C. Or, An exhibition of comic pictures, / by Bob Sketch
Bob Sketch, William Cowper
1808
An antidote to superstition: or, A cure for those weak minds which are troubled with the fear of, ghosts and witches
1795
Are you one of us
1964
Art.I. - Zauber-Bibliothek oder von Zauberei, Theurgie und Mantik, Zauberen, Hexen, und Hexenprocessen, Dämonen, Gespenstern, und Geistererscheinungen. Von Georg. Conrad Horst ... [Book review].
1826
Aunt Mary's tales, for the entertainment and improvement of little boys
Mary Hughs
1827
Blood & thistles ghost walk X
1998
England's timely remembrancer, or The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1752
England's timely remembrancer: or, The minister preaching his own funeral sermon.
1770
False alarms, or, The mischievous doctrine of ghosts and apparitions
Richard Johnson
1802
False alarms; or, The mischievous doctrine of ghosts and apparitions, of spectres and hobgoblins, exploded
R. Johnson, James Akin
1802
Five strange and wonderful prodigies: or, A full and true relation of supernatural sights and aparitions lately seen in the air
1673
Ghosts and other spectres
Anita Ganeri
2012
Ghosts galore
1974
Ghosts, &c.!
1827
Ghosts, smugglers and secrets of Britain's inns
1974
Guide to the haunted castles of Scotland
1981
Harvey Angell and the ghost child
Diana Hendry
1997
Legends of terror! and tales of the wonderful and the wild
1826
Melcomb Manor
F. Scarlett Potter
1875
Odysseus
Όμηρος
1898
Right is might, and other sketches
Samuel G. Goodrich
1854