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
- Read free
The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale.
Francis Edward Paget
Date unknown
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The Little House in the Fairy Wood
Ethel Cook Eliot
Date unknown
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The New-Year's Bargain
Susan Coolidge, Addie Ledyard
Date unknown
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The One-Eyed Fairies
Georgia Eldridge Hanley, Julia Greene
Date unknown
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The Palace in the Garden
Mrs Molesworth, Harriet M. Bennett
Date unknown
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The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story
Helen Ashe Hays
Date unknown
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The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
Andrew Lang, Richard Doyle, Edmund Evans
Date unknown
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The Rescue of the Princess Winsome: A Fairy Play for Old and Young
Annie Annie Fellows Johnston, Albion Fellows Bacon
Date unknown
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The Story of Peter Pan, Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie
Daniel O'Connor, James Matthew Barrie, Alice B Woodward
Date unknown
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The Sun's Babies
Edith Howes, Frank Watkins
Date unknown
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The Tiddly Winks
Laura Rountree Smith, Haidee Zack Walsh
Date unknown
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The Treasure of the Isle of Mist
William Woodthorpe Tarn
Date unknown
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The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, Arthur Rackham
Date unknown
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The fairy babies
Laura Rountree Smith, Dorothy Dulin
Date unknown
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Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes
Catherine Ann Turner Dorset, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Date unknown
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Violet: A Fairy Story
Caroline Snowden Guild
Date unknown
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Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories
Edith Howes, Alice Polson
Date unknown
Blackwood Farm
Anne Rice
1998
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Entretiens sur les contes de fées et sur quelques autres ouvrages du temps, pour servir de préservatif contre le mauvais goût
Pierre de Villiers
1699French
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Contes des fées
Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville baronne d' Aulnoy, Marie-Magdelaine de Lubert
1836French
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L'amante anonyme, ou L'histoire secrette de la volupté . Avec des contes nouveaux de fées. Publiée par M. le chevalier de Mouhy, de l'académie des Belles-lettres de Dijon. Premiere [-quatriéme] partie
Charles de Fieux de Mouhy
1755French
Mendeleyev's Dream
Paul Strathern
2000
Children of the night
Dan Simmons
1992
Cycle of the Werewolf
Stephen King
1983