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
- Read free
Fairies I Have Met
Rodolph Stawell, Edmund Dulac
Date unknown
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Fairy dreams
Jane Jane Goodwin Austin, Hammatt Billings
Date unknown
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Fairy's Album
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Friendly Fairies
Johnny Gruelle
Date unknown
- Read free
Girls in Bookland
Hildegarde Hawthorne, John Wolcott Adams
Date unknown
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Honey-Bee
Anatole France, Florence Lundborg, John Lane
Date unknown
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Little Miss Dorothy: The Story of the Wonderful Adventures of Two Little People
Martha James, J. Watson Davis
Date unknown
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Minnie; or, The Little Woman: A Fairy Story
Caroline Snowden Guild
Date unknown
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Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants
Sophie de Ségur
1896French
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Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies
Henry Henry Christopher McCook
Date unknown
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Piccaninnies
Isabel Isabel Maud Peacocke
Date unknown
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Piccolissima
Adélaïde de Montgolfier, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Date unknown
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Prince Vance: The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box
Eleanor Putnam, Arlo Bates, Frank Myrick
Date unknown
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Puck's Broom
E. Gordon Browne, Kathleen Nixon
Date unknown
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Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Harrison Cady
Date unknown
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The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories
Helen Ashe Hays
Date unknown
- Read free
The Box of Smiles, and Other Stories
Laura Rountree Smith, Florence Mae Pettee
Date unknown
- Read free
The Brownies and Prince Florimel; Or, Brownieland, Fairyland, and Demonland
Palmer Cox
Date unknown
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The Cozy Lion: As Told by Queen Crosspatch
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Harrison Cady
Date unknown
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The Elves of Mount Fern
Katherine Creighton
Date unknown
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The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund Spenser
Alfred John Church, Edmund Spenser
Date unknown
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The Fairies and the Christmas Child
Lilian Gask, Willy Pogány
Date unknown
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The Fairy Latchkey
Magdalene Horsfall
Date unknown
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The Fairy Nightcaps
Aunt Fanny
Date unknown