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• Apparitions

• Ghosts -- China
• Ghosts -- Drama
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• Ghosts -- England
• Ghosts -- Fiction
• Ghosts -- Flanders
• Ghosts -- Great Britain
• Ghosts -- Indonesia
• Ghosts -- Ireland
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• Ghosts -- Juvenile fiction
• Ghosts -- Language
• Ghosts -- Massachusetts
• Ghosts -- New Jersey
• Ghosts -- New York (State)
• Ghosts -- Nova Scotia
• Ghosts -- Papua New Guinea
• Ghosts -- Poetry
• Ghosts -- Scotland
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• Ghosts -- United States
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• Ghosts in literature
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• Materialization
• Poltergeists
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Ghosts
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• Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie B. Thomas (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• On the Trail of the Poltergeist (New York: Citadel Press, c1958), by Nandor Fodor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Byways of Ghost-Land (London: W. Rider and Son, 1911), by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text)
• Ghostly Phenomena (London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1910), by Elliott O'Donnell
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ghostly Visitors: A Series of Authentic Narratives (London: E. W. Allen; et al., 1882), by William Stainton Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Grey Ghost Book (London: E. Nash, 1915), by Jessie Adelaide Middleton
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• Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters (New York: Moffat, Yard, and Co., 1908), by H. Addington Bruce
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  • Gutenberg text
• The Laird o' Coul's Ghost: From the Original Ms. in the Possession of the Rev. Dr. Gordon, St. Andrew's, Glasgow (London: E. Stock, 1892), by William Ogilvie, ed. by J. F. S. Gordon (Gutenberg text)
• The Oakland Ghost and Ancient Phenomena, With a Review of the Oakland Committee (c1877), by Thomas Brownell Clarke
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• True Ghost Stories (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1915), by Hereward Carrington
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• True Tales of the Weird: A Record of Personal Experiences of the Supernatural (New York: Duffield and Co., 1920), by Sidney Dickinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter (London: Heath, Cranton, Ltd., ca. 1916), by Elliott O'Donnell, illust. by Phyllis Vere Campbell and H. C. Bevan-Petman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter (second edition; London: Heath, Cranton, Ltd., 1917), by Elliott O'Donnell, illust. by Phyllis Vere Campbell and H. C. Bevan-Petman
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• Animal Ghosts: or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter (London: W. Rider and Son, 1913), by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text)
• Apparitions: or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed (London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1815), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cock Lane and Common-Sense, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural, With Some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends (London: Chapman and Hall, 1907), by Charles G. Harper
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• An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices (London: printed for D. Browne et al., 1705), by John Beaumont
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• News From the Invisible World: or, Interesting Anecdotes of the Dead (Burslem, England: J. Tregortha, 1813), by John Tregortha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish Ghost Stories, by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text)
• The night side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost seers (New York :, 1904), by Catherine Crowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things that go bump in the night. : Illustrated by Erwin Austin. (Hill and Wang, 1959), by Louis C. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghostology ... The naturalistic philosophy of the ghosts. (W. Danmar, 1924), by William Danmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stranger than fiction, being tales from the byways of ghosts and folk-lore (W. Rider & son, ltd., 1911), by Mary L. Lewes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of dreams and ghosts (Longmans, Green, 1897), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts that still walk, real ghosts of America (A. A. Knopf, 1941), by Marion S. Lowndes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animal ghosts; or Animal hauntings & the hereafter, (W. Rider & son, 1913), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Telepathic hallucinations: the new view of ghosts (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1910), by Frank Podmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discovery concerning ghosts; with a rap at the "spirit-rappers." (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864), by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... : with a refutation of Dr. Bekker's World bewitch'd ... (London : Printed for D. Browne, J. Taylor, R. Smith, F. Coggan and T. Browne, 1705., 1705), by John Beaumont and Puritan Collection of English and American Literature (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La merveilleuse hystoire de lesperit qui depuis nagueres cest apparu au monastere des religieuses de Sainct Pierre de Lyo. : laquelle est plaine de grant admiration : comme lon pourra veoir par la lecture de ce present livre. (Lyon : Auguste Brun, libraire, MDCCCLXXXVII., 1887), by Adrien de Montalembert and Société des bibliophiles lyonnais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zauber-Bibliothek, oder von Zauberei, Theurgie und Mantik, Zauberern, Hexen, und Hexenprocessen, Dämonen, Gespenstern, und Geistererscheinungen. Zur Beförderung einer rein-geschictlichen, von Aberglauben und Unglauben freien Beurtheilung dieser Gegenstände (F. Kupferberg, 1821), by Georg Conrad Horst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The phantom of the opera (Bucaneer Books, 1977), by Gaston Leroux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russian folk-tales (Smith, Elder, & co., 1873), by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ane mort (Bourdin, 1842), by Jules Janin and Tony Johannot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das geistermotiv in den schottisch-englischen volksballaden; ein beitrag zur geschichte der volksdichtung. (Buchdruckerei R. Noske, 1914), by Konrad Ehrke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Greek and Roman ghost stories (B. H. Blackwell;, 1912), by Lacy Collison-Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Haunting experiences : ghosts in contemporary folklore (Utah State University Press, 2007), by Diane E. Goldstein, Jeannie B. Thomas, and Sylvia Ann Grider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haunted houses; tales of the supernatural, with some account of hereditary curses and family legends (Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1907), by Charles G. Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historic ghosts and ghost hunters (Moffat, Yard, 1908), by H. Addington Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haunted places in England (Sands & co., 1919), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scottish ghost stories (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1911), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Griechische heroen und abendgeister (Thomas & Oppermann, 1916), by Alfred Döhring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on capacity and genius; to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind; and that no genius ... is innate, but solely produced by and dependent on circumstances. Also enquiry into the nature of ghosts, and other appearances supposed to be supernatural. (W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghost tales and legends (W. & R. Chambers, 1929), by H. Drummond Gauld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ghost world; its realities, apparitions & spooks (Jarrolds limited, 1919), by John William Wickwar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts in Irish houses. (Creative Age Press, 1947), by James Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cock Lane and common-sense (Longmans, Green, 1896), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das lustige alte Hamburg; scherze, sitten und gebräuche unserer väter, gesammelt. (F. Dörling, 1890), by Albert Borcherdt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der spuk : zweihundertundfünfzig Geschehnisse aller Arten und Zeiten aus der Welt des Übersinnlichen (R. Piper & co., 1922), by Otto A. Piper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural (Duffield and Company, 1920), by Sidney Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haunted houses and haunted men (Wellby, 1901), by J. W. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts I have seen and other psychic experiences (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1919), by Violet Tweedale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The night side of nature, or, Ghosts and ghost seers (T.C. Newby, 1848), by Catherine Crowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Byways of ghost-land (W. Rider, 1911), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fun for doctors and their patients; fifty authentic ghost stories by fifty experienced physicians. (J.L. Short, 1901), by John L. Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observationum ad antiquitutes septrionales pertinentium specimen (Sumptibus Bibliogpolii Mummiani, 1769), by Jón Eiríksson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers. (J. S. Redfield;, 1850), by Catherine Crowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Amherst mystery, a true narrative of the supernatural. (Brentano's, 1916), by Walter Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghost stories : collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions (Carey and Hart, 1846), by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunted homes and family traditions of Great Britain (Gibbings & co., ltd., 1897), by John Henry Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of dreams and ghosts (Longmans, Green and Co., 1899), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des fantomes et des démons : qui se sont montrés parmi les hommes, ou, Choix d'anecdotes et de contes ... (Locard et Davi, 1819), by Gabrielle de Paban (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghost stories; collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghost and apparitions. (J. Miller, 1865), by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost seers (H. T. Coates & Company, 1901), by Catherine Crowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bekannte und unbekannte Historien von dem abenteuerlichen und weltberufenen Gespenste dem Rübezahl, welche nicht allein aus allerhand Relationen der fremden Handelsleute, sondern auch durch Avisierungen vornehmer und gelahrter schlesischer Personen zuwege gebracht hat (Insel-Verlag, 1920), by Johannes Praetorius and F. B. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Queer side of things. (Selwyn, 1923), by Mary L. Lewes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ghosts I have seen and other psychic experiences (H. Jenkins, 1920), by Violet Tweedale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunted homes and family traditions of Great Britain. (W.H. Allen & co., 1884), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Accredited ghost stories. (J. Andrews, 1823), by T. M. Jarvis, Charles Whittingham, and J. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• El ente dilucidado : discurso unico novissi[m]o q[ue] muestra ay en natural[ez]a animales irracionales invisibles, y quales sean (En la empr[rent]a real, 1676), by Antonio de Fuentelapeña (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the truths contained in popular superstitions : with an account of mesmerism (William Blackwood and Sons, 1851), by Herbert Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spooks deluxe; some excursions into the supernatural (F. Watts, 1956), by Danton Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dream and its significance : a contribution to the psychology of sub-conscious life ([s.n.]., 1916), by George Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts I have seen and other psychic experiences (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1919), by Violet Tweedale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarkable apparitions and ghost=stories, or Authentic histories of communications (real or imaginary) with the unseen world. (Wilson and company, 1848), by Clarence S. Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghost stories; collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions. (H. C. Baird, 1854), by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Klopf-und Spukgeister zu Olderwitz und Herwigsdorf bei Zittau mit ähnlichen Erscheinungen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart verglichen und ganz einfach erklärt (Im Selbstverlage des Herausgebers, 1864), by K. A. Berthelen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The night side of nature, or, Ghosts and ghost seers (T. C. Newby, 1849), by Catherine Crowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts and ghost seers. (Redfield, 1853), by Catherine Crowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange stories from the lodge of leisures (Constable, 1913), by Songling Pu and G. Soulié de Morant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Russian folk-tales (R. Worthington, 1878), by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Byways of ghostland ([s.n.], 1911), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cock lane and common-sense. (Longmans, Green, 1901), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les phénomènes de hantise (F. Alcan, 1920), by Ernesto Bozzano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spectropia; or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour. (James G. Gregory, 1864), by J. H. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of ghosts (G. P. Putnam's sons; [etc., etc., 1904), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Was it a ghost? The murders in Bussey's wood. An extraordinary narrative. (Loring, 1868), by Henry Johnson Brent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Happy Hill (The Four seas company, 1920), by Bertha Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curious stories (J. Miller, 1867), by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true ghost story; or, Three nights in a haunted house, and a brief sketch of superstition ([Press of R. H. Carothers], 1895), by Hazel Lewis Scaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yu lan pen jing jian zhu (Yi xue shu ju, 1918), by Fubao Ding and Dharmaraksha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Throwing of stones and other substances by spirits (Printed by T. Scott, 1865), by William Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phantasms of the dead; or, True ghost stories (American universities publishing company, 1920), by Hereward Carrington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The haunted house, a true ghost story being an account of the mysterious manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, the young girl who is possessed of devils, and has become known throughout the entire Dominion as the great Amherst mystery ("Daily News", 1879), by Walter Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunted homes and family traditions of Great Britain. (W.H. Allen & Co., 1886), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• True ghost stories (J.S. Ogilvie, 1915), by Hereward Carrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ghost world (Ward & Downey, 1893), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russian folk-tales (R. Worthington, 1880), by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Night side of nature (Widdleton, 1868), by Catherine Crowe and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gespenster : kurze Erzählungen aus dem Reiche der Wahrheit (Bey Friedrich Maurer, 1798), by Samuel Christoph Wagener and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Spuk: 250 [i.e. zweihudertundfünfzig] Geschehnisse aller Arten und Zeiten aus der Welt des Uebersinnlichen (J. P. Bachem, 1917), by Otto A. Piper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yūrei to obake (Rakuyōdō, 1919), by Hiroshi Takamine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eine Erscheinung aus dem Nachtgebiete der Natur, durch eine Reiche von Zeuben gerichtlich bestätugt und den Naturforschern zum Bedenken mitgetheilt. (J.G. Cotta, 1836), by Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cock lane and common-sense (Longmans, Green, 1894), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cavalcade of ghosts. (Worlds work;, 1913), by R. Thurston Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The grey ghost book (Nash & Grayson, 1930), by Jessie Adelaide Middleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• El libro verde; cuentos de duendes y aparecidos. Compuestos con el objeto espreso de desterrar las preocupaciones vulgares de apariciones ... (Boix, Besserer, y C., 1852), by F. C. Hébert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of dreams and ghosts. (AMS Press, 1970), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunted mind; a psychoanalyst looks at the supernatural. (Helix Press, 1960), by Nandor Fodor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of dreams and ghosts (Longmans, Green, and co., 1897), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yao guai xue jiang yi lu zong lun (Shang wu yin shu guan, 1917), by Enryō Inoue and Yuanpei Cai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian ghost stories. (A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1921), by S. Mukerji (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Stoneground ghost tales (W. Heffer & Sons, ltd., 1912), by E. G. Swain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ghosts and other people; stories from "Time". (S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1885), by Oscar Wilde and Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spuk- und Geistererscheinungen oder was sonst? : Eine kritische Untersuchung (Franz Borgmeyer, 1922), by Bruno Grabinski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The haunted homes and family traditions of Great Britain. (Gibbings, 1901), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jin wu shi nian jian wen lu : juan 6-8 (880-02 Shanghai : Jin bu shu ju, [1928], 1928), by Yunyong Zhou (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Psychologie, ou Traité de l'apparition des esprits (A Rouen : Chez Michel le Deutre, ruë Saint Nicolas, pres la croix de fer, MDLXXXVIII., 1588), by Noël Taillepied (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts! (Dorrance, 1937), by René Bache and Violet Biddle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Haunted houses; tales of the supernatural, with some account of hereditary curses and family legends (C. Palmer, 1924), by Charles George Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous curses (Skeffington & Son, 1929), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Berbagai-bagai kepertjajaan orang Melajoe : ja'ni Kepertjajaan kepada orang haloes (hantoe, sētan, djin dan lain-lain sebangsanja). Bagian jang pertama (Weltevreden : Boekhandel Visser & Co, 1917., 1917), by M. T. Soetan Lémbang 'Alam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Was it a ghost? The murders in Bussey's wood : An extraordinary narrative, by Henry Johnson Brent (Gutenberg ebook)
• Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions: Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of Any Colour, by J. H. Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers, by Catherine Crowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, by Sidney Dickinson, contrib. by Gertrude Ogden Tubby (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ghost World, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences, by Violet Tweedale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore, by Mary L. Lewes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts: With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers", by George Cruikshank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed, by Joseph Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men, by J. W. Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• The vvonder of vvonders, or, a true relation of a late strange and miraculous accident that happened to one that dyed in the ship called, the Dunbar, who after he had been buried one shore above five daies, rise again, and standing upright in his grave, called to the fleet with a shrill voice at noon-day, telling them the events that should happen to all those ships that went towards the sound. With the several speeches made by him, to the wonderful astonishment and admiration of divers of the fleet, who were both hearers and eye-witnesses, and will justifie the truth of this great miracle. With a great and strange apparition of two armies that appeared in the north of England on Thursday last, with the exact manner of their engaging one another at noon-day with the thundring noise both of great and small shot: (London : printed for J[ohn]. Jones, anno Dom. 1659) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media (Bern et al.: Peter Lang AG, 2016), ed. by Maria Fleischhack and Elmar Schenkel (JSTOR ebook)

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