Tradition 24 of 35
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
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- Books
- 2,922
- Earliest
- 1144
- to 2026
- Read free
- 39%
- 1,150 with public full text
- With covers
- 52%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,420
- Metadata match26
- Query match1,475
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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Key subjects
- Fairy tales1K
- Juvenile fiction443
- Fairies390
- Fiction375
- Vampires285
- Folklore245
- Children's stories184
- Children's fiction180
- Conduct of life168
- Children137
- Tales128
- Werewolves123
- Juvenile literature113
- Vampir111
- Foreign elements110
- Fantasy107
- Early works to 1800102
- Magic95
- Vampires, fiction93
- Fantasy fiction92
- Euclid's Elements88
- Specimens83
- History69
- Legends61
Top languages
- English1,775 · 61%
- German448 · 15%
- French257 · 9%
- Latin42 · 1%
- Japanese36 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Hans Christian Andersen54 in this tradition103 books
- Charles Perrault51 in this tradition76 books
- Andrew Lang29 in this tradition83 books
- Jacob Grimm25 in this tradition55 books
- Walter Crane25 in this tradition50 books
- Wilhelm Grimm24 in this tradition53 books
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy24 in this tradition26 books
- Euclid20 books
- Wenzel Müller15 in this tradition20 books
- Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]14 in this tradition20 books
- Harriet Muncaster14 books
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen13 in this tradition28 books
2,922 books
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The Vampyre
John William Polidori, John Polidori, George Gordon Byron Byron, John Mitford
1819
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Elizabethan demonology
Thomas Alfred Spalding
1880
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Letters on demonology and witchcraft
Walter Scott, Henry Morley, George Cruikshank, James Ballantyne and Co. bkp CU-BANC
1830
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Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
John Thackray Bunce
1878
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Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland
Thomas Crofton Croker
1825
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Fians, fairies, and Picts
David MacRitchie
1893
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Indian fairy tales
Maive S. H. Stokes, Maive Stokes, William Ralston Shedden Ralston, Mary Stokes Wayne
1879
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Old Deccan days
Mary Eliza Isabella Frere, Mary Frere, Bartle Frere, Catherine Frances Frere
1868
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The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology
Edwin Sidney Hartland
1891
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The fairy mythology, illustrative of the romance and superstition of various countries
Thomas Keightley
1828
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The folklore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races
Nicholas Belfield Dennys, By Nicholas Belfield Dennys, Nicholas Belfield. [from old catalog] Dennys
1876
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The phantom world
Augustin Calmet, Henry Christmas, Abraham Hart, printer T.K. & P.G. Collins, Caroline Coddington Thayer, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1746
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The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland
William Grant Stewart
1823
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Vikram and the Vampire
Richard Francis Burton, Ernest Henry Griset, Isabel Lady Burton, Richard Burton, Isabel Burton
1870
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Wild talents
Charles Fort
1932
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Lee and Shepard, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, John Wilson and Son, Charles Dickens, Anne Collins, Margaret Tarner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Maisha Books, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Storker, M. Bram Stocker, M. Philippe Ballin, Eve Paul-Margueritte in 1920, Bram Stolker, Bram BRAM STOKER, Braum Stoker, BramStoker, Warren Publishing Company, Esis Nem, Paper Mill Press Bram Stoker, Books Tor, Gustavo Aguilera, Classical Comics, Nik Maguire, Moon Dragon, Collectifs, Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, Hutchinson Emily, Period Time Publishing, D. P. Stevens Edition, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Classic Collections, Stoker, Heinz Widtmann, Yordi Abreu, Bi Classics, Alex Stewart, Si tuo ke, BRAM STOCKER - E. NOBATI, Tabib Haider, Bram Stroker, Matthew Corrigan, Bram Stocker, Fernando Fernández, Anna Gasol Trullols, Andrew Struthers, Bram Bram, HellBound Books Publishing LLC, Christina Widmann, Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling, Howard Pyle, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, George Alfred Williams, Arthur Rackham, John Leech, Howard Bloom, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Danide, Núria Pradas, Carmen Gil, Juan Antonio Molina Foix, Mario Montalbán, Leonard Wolf, ClassyBookRead, Destinyalready Creative Writing Ink, Fay Weldon, Bess Georges, Alba Pagán, David Stuart Davies, David Rogers, A. R. S. BEL, Ferdinand Du Chevalier, Abraham Stoker, Sarah Prescott, Alex Rouse, Bram Stoke, A. Nessi, Liz Lochhead, Lewis; Tenniel Carroll
1800
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Popular tales from the Norse
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, George Webbe Dasent, 1812-1885, 1813-1882
1859
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Tales of old Japan
A. B. Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
1871
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More Celtic fairy tales
Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
1894
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Vampires and vampirism
Dudley Wright
1914
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Wonderful stories for children
Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Botham Howitt, Mary Howitt, L. ill Hutschenreuter, Vilhelm Pedersen, J. H. Stickney, W. Heath Robinson, H. B. Mrs Paull, 1825-1916 Eleanor Vere Boyle, James Burn & Company. bnd, Leighton Bros. ltg, Augusta. trl Plesner, Marston Sampson Low, Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, Harrison Weir
1800
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Goblin tales of Lancashire
James Bowker, Charles Gliddon
1878
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Irish fairy tales
William Butler Yeats, Jack Butler Yeats, Jack Jack Butler Yeats
1892
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A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients
Edward Tyson, Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
1894