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
Petsetilla's posy
Tom Hood
1871
Photographing fairies
2021
Poultry Meg's family, and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
Prince Dorus, or, Flattery put out of countenance
Charles Lamb
1811
Prince Perindo's wish
T. C
1874
Prince Vance
Eleanor Putnam
1888
Puss in boots
F. P. Palmer, Cham, Orr & Compy, Vizetelly Brothers & Co
1844
Puss in boots
Charles Perrault
1866
Puss in boots
Otto Speckter, Charles Perrault
1856
Puss-cat Mew
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne
1869
Queen Love and the fairies
Susan E. Whiston
1862
Queen Lœta and the mistletoe
George Halse
1857
Real fairy folks
Lucy Rider Meyer
1887
Revels of the queen of May and her fairies
Mary L. Gaddess
1891
Robinson Crusoe
John Dawson Watson
1869
Rose Marian, and the flower fairies
Lydia Maria Child
1850
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Howard & Wyndham, Limited ... Monday, 14th February 1910, last six nights and three matinees. Morning performances--Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2 / Sir H. Beerhohm Tree's full Company from His Majesty's Theatre, London in the musical fairy play, Pinkie and the Fairies for grown ups and children
1907
Sayings and doings in fairyland, or, Old friends with new faces
D. S. Sinclair
1890
Six little princesses and what they turned into
Elizabeth Prentiss
1898
Stories of long ago
Grace H. Kupfer
1899
Sun, moon and stars
E. Richardson
1899
Syllabus of plane geometry (corresponding to Euclid, Books I-VI) Rev. and brought into correspondence with the text-book prepared by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching.
1889
Tales of magic and meaning
Alfred Crowquill
1856
The Child's book of fairy tales
Nathaniel Orr
1859