READ THROUGH THE LIBRARY
THE READING ROOM
The foundational books of the field, read in full, here — every title public domain, the edition and source on each book’s page. Take a book out, read it chapter by chapter, return it; the Library keeps the loan record. Books still in copyright are not shown here; the Bookstore tells you who sells them.
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1894
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Andrew Lang
21 CH · 364 MIN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1897
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang
78 CH · 302 MIN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1922
The Coming of the Fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle
10 CH · 126 MIN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1848
The Night-Side of Nature
Catherine Crowe
43 CH · 638 MIN
ANOMALIES · 1919
The Book of the Damned
Charles Fort
36 CH · 407 MIN
WITCHCRAFT & DEMONOLOGY · 1867
Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II
Charles Wentworth Upham
96 CH · 1128 MIN
WITCHCRAFT & DEMONOLOGY · 1693
The Wonders of the Invisible World
Cotton Mather, Increase Mather
31 CH · 315 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1888
Irish Wonders
D. R. McAnally
19 CH · 227 MIN
HAUNTINGS · 1911
Byways of Ghost-Land
Elliott O'Donnell
13 CH · 239 MIN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1903
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
F. W. H. Myers
71 CH · 762 MIN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1924
A Magician Among the Spirits
Harry Houdini
20 CH · 313 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1900
Myths of the Cherokee
James Mooney
186 CH · 1073 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1900
Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell
29 CH · 284 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1902
Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell
26 CH · 276 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1920
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series
Lady Gregory
26 CH · 299 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1920
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second Series
Lady Gregory
32 CH · 293 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1887
Ancient legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland
Lady Wilde
52 CH · 608 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1899
In Ghostly Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
39 CH · 136 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1904
Kwaidan
Lafcadio Hearn
30 CH · 134 MIN
WITCHCRAFT & DEMONOLOGY · 1921
The Witch-cult in Western Europe
Margaret Alice Murray
34 CH · 381 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1909
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii
Nathaniel Bright Emerson
54 CH · 382 MIN
WITCHCRAFT & DEMONOLOGY · 1584
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot
238 CH · 1117 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1691
The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Robert Kirk
12 CH · 110 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1893
The Ghost World
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
32 CH · 309 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1825
Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
Thomas Crofton Croker
45 CH · 313 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1893
The Celtic Twilight
W. B. Yeats
43 CH · 148 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1888
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
W. B. Yeats (ed.)
38 CH · 437 MIN
FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1915
Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)
W. D. Westervelt
30 CH · 244 MIN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH · 1891
Real Ghost Stories
W. T. Stead
20 CH · 241 MIN