Tradition 24 of 33
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
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
Ye interestynge storie of Cinderella and ye lyttel glass slyppere
Francis Davis
1880
[Red Riding Hood
1875
Anton und der kleine Vampir
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Magdalene Hanke-Basfeld
Date unknown
A la caza del príncipe Drácula
Kerri Maniscalco
2019Spanish
Academy of Blood and Fangs 2: Schattenkuss
Anna Lukas
2025German
Adeline
María Solar
2024Spanish
Battle of the monkey & the crab.
1886
Belle Morte – Rot wie Rosen
Bella Higgin, Doris Attwood
2026German
Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées et autre contes merveilleux.
1785French
Contes des grand'mères
Xavier Marmier
1892French
De rots der vampiers
1978Dutch
De vampiers van New York
1976Dutch
Die Märchen des Papyrus Westcar
1890German
Fairy Frisket or Peeps at Insect Life
A. L. O. E
1875
Four excellent songs
1840SCO
H.C. Andersen's ausgewählte Märchen für die Jugend
H. C. Andersen, Eduard Kretzschmar
1870German
Illi︠u︡strirovannyi︠a︡ skazki Andersena
Hans Christian Andersen
1894Russian
Le Bal des vampires
1967French
Le cabinet des fées; ou Collection choisie des contes des fées, et autres contes merveilleux, ornés de figures.
1785French
Le cabinet des fées
1785French
Les Contes des fées
1884French
Nacht der vampiers
1973Dutch
Nedzumi no yomeiri (Mouse's wedding)
1885
Nihon mukashibanashi
Sazanami Iwaya
1800Japanese