Tradition 24 of 33
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
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- Books
- 2,883
- Earliest
- 1144
- to 2026
- Read free
- 36%
- 1,048 with public full text
- With covers
- 51%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,368
- Metadata match20
- Query match1,494
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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Key subjects
- Fairy tales1K
- Juvenile fiction413
- Fairies363
- Fiction359
- Vampires270
- Folklore228
- Children's fiction177
- Children's stories173
- Conduct of life164
- Children135
- Werewolves117
- Tales114
- Juvenile literature113
- Vampir111
- Foreign elements110
- Fantasy105
- Early works to 1800101
- Vampires, fiction93
- Fantasy fiction90
- Magic89
- Euclid's Elements88
- Specimens80
- History67
- History and criticism59
Top languages
- English1,776 · 62%
- German445 · 15%
- French254 · 9%
- Latin42 · 1%
- Japanese36 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Hans Christian Andersen56 books
- Charles Perrault46 in this tradition48 books
- Andrew Lang27 in this tradition36 books
- Walter Crane25 in this tradition26 books
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy25 books
- Wilhelm Grimm20 in this tradition24 books
- Jacob Grimm20 in this tradition21 books
- Euclid20 books
- Wenzel Müller15 in this tradition17 books
- Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]14 in this tradition15 books
- Harriet Muncaster14 books
- George MacDonald13 in this tradition15 books
2,883 books
Era
Jack and the bean-stalk
1820
Kachi-Kachi Mountain
1886
Kobutori
1888
Little Estella
1860
Little Red Riding Hood
1880
Little Red Riding Hood
1890
Little Red Riding Hood
1870
Little Red Riding-hood
1873
Macarte's Theatre Royal & Temple of Varieties, Junction Street, Leith ... On Monday, December 30, and every evening during the week ... Tam o' Shanter or Harlequin Souter johnnie, Witches of Alloway Kirk, and the Good Fairies of the Doon!
Macarte's Theatre Royal
1868
Momotaro
1895
Momotaro
1800
Mormonostolismos, sive lamiarum vestitus
Simeon Steward
1691
Mother Goose's fairy tales ...
1817
Old friends among the fairies: Puss in boots and other stories
Andrew Lang
1926
Over the hills and far away
2010Dutch
Persian tales
1779
Queer people with wings and stings and their kweer kapers
Palmer Cox
1888
Rainbows for children
Lydia Maria Child, Caroline Sturgis Tappan
1867
Reception of the chalice
Archdale A. King
1972
Robin Goodfellow
1770
Sangers' Circus. Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Proprietors, Messrs. J. & G. Sangers. Acting manager, Mr. G. Knight. Pantomime opening. Young Scotland and the demon of France! Or, The fairies of the crystal fountain! A national comic harlequinade
G Knight
1860
Sherlock Holmes in The Sussex vampire
Arthur Conan Doyle
1996
Shitakiri suzume
1888
Sindbad, or, Seven strange voyages
1849