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 true story of Jack and the beanstalk
Arthur Sturgess
1899
The voices of spring flowers and other tales
M. S
1862
The water-babies
Charles Kingsley
1863
The white cat
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1877
The white dove
Elizabeth W. Townsend
1855
The wonder clock, or Four and twenty marvelous tales
Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle
1897
The wonderful adventures of Tuflongbo
Holme Lee
1861
Tiny Tim, Dot and the fairy cricket
Charles Dickens
1856
To tell the King the sky is falling
Sheila Braine
1896
Tom Grubb and his wonderful dog
Nathaniel Orr
1859
Tom Thumb
Willard Johnson
1832
Tom Thumbe, his life and death
1630
Tom, Thumb
Alfred Crowquill, Alfred Henry Forrester
1844
Town and country
Richard Henry Stoddard
1857
Traditions and legends of the elf, the fairy, and the gnome.
1840
Truths and fancies from fairy land, or, Fairy stories with a purpose
W. H. Davenport Adams
1867
Tuflongbo and Little Content
Holme Lee
1868
Valentine and Orson
Walter Crane, Edmund Evans
1874
Violet
Caroline Snowden Guild
1856
Warne's national nursery library
Sarah Catherine Martin
1873
Welsh fairy-tales
1894
What Uncle told us about
Alfred Crowquill
1861
Will-o'-the-wisps, or, Lights and sprites
1862
Woodleigh house, or, The Happy holidays
Edmund Evans
1852