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
Era
The goast [sic] of Benjamin Binns
1880
The minister preaching his own funeral sermon
1790
The ship of ghosts
Gillian Philip
2015
The worlds wonder
1659
Thrummy Cap, and the ghaist, a diverting tale
1800
Visits from the world of spirits
1840
Comedia famosa, El diablo esta en Cantillana
Luis Velez de Guevara
[ohne Jahresangabe]Spanish
Das Buch des Scharfrichters. ... vermehrt hrsg
Franz Gräffer
####German
Das Gespenst mit der langen Hand. Lustspiel in 3 Aufz. 2. Aufl
Leonhard Friedrich
[ohne Jahresangabe]German
Abby & Walton
Anaïs Halard
2022Spanish
Das allerkleinste Nachtgespenst
Brigitte Weninger, Kirsten Höcker, Eve Tharlet
1995German
L'Allemagne fantastique de Goethe à Meyrink
1973French
L'Amérique fantastique de Poe à Lovecraft
1973French
L'Angleterre fantastique de Defoe à Wells
1974French
Nachdrückliche Buss-Stimme und Warnungs-Posaune vom Himmel, an alle bosshafte Sünder auf Erden; oder: Thomas Chamberlains letzte Leichen-Rede
1774German
¡Monstruos GO!
Carrión
2019Spanish
Monsters; and, Ghosts
1972
Dead funny jokes!
2011