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
Angel-dreams
Austin Carroll
1869
As pretty as seven
Ludwig Bechstein
1872
Aunt Louisa's book of common things
L. Valentine
1896
Aunty's elfin land, or, The astonishing doings of Mildred, Tom and Harry
Maria Hildreth Parker
1890
Beauty and the beast
Nathaniel Orr
1855
Beauty and the beast
1875
Blue Beard
F. W. N. Bayley
1842
Brownies and rose-leaves
Roma White
1892
Butterscotia
Edward Abbott Parry
1896
Child-life in Japan, and Japanese child-stories
Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
1879
Christmas elves, or
Agnes Carr Sage
1887
Cinderella
Michael Kelly
1807
Cinderella
1887
Cinderella
1855
Cinderella, and her glass slippers
1831
Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
Andrew Lang
1890
Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
John H Hall
1834
Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
1815
Cinderilla [sic], or, The little glass slipper
1808
Cinderilla, or, The little glass slipper
1810
Cinderilla, or, The little glass slipper
1816
Clementina's mirror, or, Six glimpses of life
Nellie Grahame
1859
Constantio and Selima
James Easton
1795
Daffy down dilly and her friends
H. H. Weston
1870