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
Snow-white and Rose-red
1890
Stories
1855
The Blacksmith and the fairies
1988
The Children's Cinderella, or, The Little glass slipper
1875
The Court of Oberon, or, Temple of the fairies
1823
The Doyle fairy book
Anthony Rubens Montalba
1890
The Sleeping beauty of the wood
1800
The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue
Lucy Peacock
1786
The dark lantern. A short fantasy about fairies & some mortals
W. R. M
1920
The fairies of Falkland
Charles Gulland
1876
The falls of Clyde, or The fairies. A Scottish pastoral
John Black
1871
The falls of Clyde, or, The fairies; a Scottish dramatic pastoral, in five acts. With three preliminary dissertations
River Clyde
1806
The grammar fairies: a play
Thomas McLaren Davidson
1891
The history of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, destroyed by a slave
1800
The history of Jack and the giants
1800
The history of Tommie Brown and the queen of the fairies. [With plates.]
Tommie Brown
1880
The home treasury of popular fairy tales
1857
The little mermaid and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1893
The magic legacy
1840
The second part of Jack and the giants
1800
The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns and fairies : a study in folk-lore & psychical research
Robert Kirk, Andrew Lang
1893
The silly jelly-fish
1895
The sleeping beauty
1816
The story of the bubble fairies
Janet Middleton
2001