Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,386
- Earliest
- 1498
- to 2026
- Read free
- 28%
- 386 with public full text
- With covers
- 52%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,328
- Metadata match56
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
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
- Ghosts330
- Fiction246
- Ghost stories194
- Haunted places129
- Gespenst106
- History94
- Apparitions92
- Fantômes88
- Juvenile fiction85
- Poltergeists85
- Children's fiction78
- Haunted houses64
- Scotland63
- Social Sciences59
- Supernatural48
- Horror stories47
- Horror tales47
- Art46
- Short Stories45
- Arts and Humanities40
- Ghosts, fiction39
- Literature36
- Text35
- Kinderbuch34
Top languages
- English963 · 69%
- French90 · 6%
- German81 · 6%
- Japanese53 · 4%
- Spanish44 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Robert Lawrence Stine25 in this tradition49 books
- Charles Dickens19 in this tradition22 books
- 叶兴阳双语音标有声读物10 in this tradition23 books
- Algernon Blackwood8 in this tradition13 books
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8 in this tradition11 books
- Roberto Pavanello8 books
- Elliott O'Donnell6 in this tradition11 books
- Joseph Lewis French6 in this tradition7 books
- Edgar Allan Poe5 in this tradition15 books
- Hans Holzer5 in this tradition10 books
- Cornelia Funke5 in this tradition6 books
- Montague Rhodes James5 in this tradition6 books
1,386 books
- Read free
Apparitions and Thought-Transference
Frank Podmore
1894
- Read free
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
1897
- Read free
Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible
Maria Fleischhack, Elmar Schenkel
2016
- Read free
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
1917
- Read free
Raising Milton's Ghost
Joseph Crawford
2011
- Read free
The Book / Or / The Woods
Jeff T Johnson
2021
- Read free
The Spectral Arctic
Shane McCorristine
2018
- Read free
The phantom world
Augustin Calmet
1746
- Read free
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Andrew Lang
2011
- Read free
Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan
Andrea De Antoni, Raveri, Massimo | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-, Massimo Raveri
2017
- Read free
Ethnography #9
Alan Klima
2019
- Read free
Living with Monsters
Ilana Gershon, Yasmine Musharbash
2023
- Read free
Queer Roots for the Diaspora
Jarrod Landin Hayes
2016
- Read free
Suture
KJ Cerankowski
2021
- Read free
Apparitions
Joseph Taylor
1814
- Read free
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
Joanne Chassot
2018
- Read free
Techniken der Täuschung
Katharina Rein
2020German
- Read free
Haunted houses
Camille Flammarion, Edmund Edward Fournier D'Albe
1924
- Read free
Materialized apparitions
Edward Augustus Brackett
1886
- Read free
The White People
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1917
- Read free
The haunted house, a true ghost story
Walter Hubbell
1879
- Read free
Amongst Aliens and Ghosts
Edda Starck
2023
- Read free
Ghost-Managed Medicine
Sergio Sismondo
2018
- Read free
Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present
Mary L Coffey
2020