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
Nouveaux contes de fées
1801French
Początek
2011Polish
Skazka o Ivani︠e︡ Bogatyri︠e︡, o prekrasnoĭ suprugi︠e︡ ego Svi︠e︡tlani︠e︡ i o zlom volshebniki︠e︡ Karachuni︠e︡
1856Russian
Specimen glossarii vocabulorum
1832Latin
Tempo di vampiri
Marco Moretti
2004Italian
The beauty of living death
Irina Morozova-Fuerschuss
2013
Uomini o vampiri
Gabriele Rossi Osmida
1978Italian
Vampiers van Valkenbos
Pim Hofdorp
1969Dutch
Volksmärchen
1858German
World of vampires
Eddie Svedlund
2025Swedish
ワイマール映画のなかのハリウッド
田中, 雄次, 熊本大学
2006Japanese
夜想
2007Japanese
"Behind time"
George Parsons Lathrop
1886
A Christmas tree fairy
Robert Ellice Mack
1887
A Present for good boys
Johnson & Warner
1813
A budget of fun for little folks
Maggie Aunt
1863
A modern Puck
Agnes Giberne
1898
A new book of the fairies
Beatrice Harraden
1897
A picture-book without pictures, and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1848
A trap to catch a sunbeam
Henry S. Mrs Mackarness
1800
Aladdin
Harriet B. Audubon
1869
Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
1847
Among the Woblins
Sydney Hodges
1883
An heir of dreams
Sallie Margaret Mrs O'Malley
1897