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 knight of the rose
Lucy Peacock
1793
The life of a fairy
Nelson Lee
1850
The little mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen
1893
The magic oak tree
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne
1894
The magic spell
William Gardiner
1819
The mountain-sprite's kingdom and other stories
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne
1881
The naughty boy and other stories / by Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
1866
The new Arabian nights
W. F. Kirby, Gustav Weil, Jonathan Scott, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Butler & Tanner Ltd, Selwood Printing Works
1882
The new fairy book
William Andrews
1895
The old church bell, and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The one-eyed griffin, and other fairy stories
Herbert Inman
1897
The owl king and other fairy stories
Herbert Inman
1898
The pink hen
Cuthbert Spurling
1899
The red cap
Alfred Crowquill
1859
The second froggy fairy book
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle
1898
The selfish man, or, The world's teaching
Alfred Crowquill
1857
The seven ravens
1882
The shoes of fortune
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The sleeping beauty
Walter Crane
1873
The sleeping beauty in the wood
Charles Perrault
1870
The snowdrop papers
TiT
1877
The story of Blue Beard
Charles Perrault
1890
The story of a puppet, or, The adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
1892
The three princesses
Alice M. Greene
1871