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 Danish story book
Hans Christian Andersen
1857
The Diary of three children, or, Fifty-two Saturdays
Catherine D. Bell
1863
The Golden ball
Lydia Maria Child
1864
The History of Prince Tangut and of the princess, with the nose of a foot long
1812
The Jumping jack's journey, or, The perilous adventures of a jumping jack, a tin soldier, and a nut-cracker
Lander Miss
1858
The Little tin soldier
Houghton & Dutton Co
1880
The Palace of enchantment, or, Entertaining and instructive fairy tales .
1794
The Princess on the glass hill
Andrew Lang
1890
The Seven Swabians
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
1881
The Will-o'-the-Wisp
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The Wonderful mirror
Smith & Pierson
1855
The absent-minded fairy
Margaret Vandegrift
1884
The beloved does not bite
Debra Dudek
2018
The blue ribbons, a story of the last century
Anna H. Drury
1850
The boy in grey
Henry Kingsley, Strahan & Co, Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press, James Burn & Company
1871
The broonie silkies & fairies
Duncan Williamson
1985
The broonie, silkies and fairies
Duncan Williamson
1993
The brownies and other tales
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
1871
The child's book of fairy tales
1851
The children of the castle
Molesworth Mrs, Walter Crane, Lucy Beatrice Rose Brassington, Macmillan & Co, R. & R. Clark
1890
The coming of the King
Florence M. S. Scott
1898
The crown pitiful
Ella Fuller Maitland
1895
The dream chintz
Henry S. Mrs Mackarness
1851
The edge of the silver sea
Alex Mullarky
2024