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
The vampire
Montague Summers
1928
The vampire in Europe
Montague Summers
1929
The witch of Inverness, and the fairies of Tomnahurich
Town of. [Appendix.] Inverness
1891
Vampirella
2006
Vampires
2006
Witches in Atholl
Nancy Foy Cameron
1999
Bitte nicht öffnen, sonst ... tierisch vampirisch!
Charlotte Habersack, Fréderic Bertrand
25German
Cesta Slovenskem s A. Calmetem Ord. S. B., aneb Theorie wampyrismu
Josef Váchal
Date unknownCzech
The fairies' repertory; containing choice tales, selected from Mother Bunch, Mother Grim, and Mother Goose. [With illustrations.]
Robin Goodfellow
[18--]
"Der Vampir und seine Erscheinungsformen in Literatur und Film"
Kerstin Obex
2015
Aberglaube aller Zeiten
Wilhelm Fischer
1906German
Alenʹkoĭ t︠s︡vetochek
S. T. Aksakov
1886Russian
Auf dem Wege zu einer sozialen Psychophysiologie des akuten Vampirismus
Hans Dieter Mummendey
1977
Bang voor vampiers? en andere verhalen
1999Dutch
Begierde - Niemand liebt ewig - The Hunger
Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
2000
Brennen muß Salem
Stephen King
1985German
Brokatowe ubieranki
2024Polish
Chi fu xiao zi
Renate Welsh, Heribert Schulmeyer, Shixun Li
2016Chinese
Conquest en de vampiers
Berkeley Gray
1972Dutch
Contes nouveaux, ou, Les fées à la mode
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1715French
Curieuse und sehr wunderbare Relation von denen sich neuer Dingen in Servien erzeigenden Blut-Saugern oder Vampyrs, aus auth. Nachrichten mitgeth. vnd mit Histor. und Philosoph. Reflexionen begleitet von W. S. G. E
W. S. G. E
1732German
De lamiis liber. Item de commentitiis jejuniis (etc.)
Johannes Wier
1577Latin
Der aufgeklärte Vampirdiskurs im deutschsprachigen Raum des 18. Jahrhunderts
Florian Kneringer
2013
Die Anthropologie und Weltanschauung der Vampyr-Subkultur
Matthias Christian Steiner
2012