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
Mélusine, ou Les tombeaux des Lusignans. Tome 1
Jean Edme Paccard
1815French
- Read free
Obéron, roi des fées
Numa Lafont
1846French
Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire / Queen of the Damned / Vampire Lestat)
Anne Rice
1989
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward
2005
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
1995
- Read free
Le lac des fées
Eugène Scribe, Mélesville
1839French
Carrion comfort
Dan Simmons
1989
Der Zahn
Ayşe Klinge
2025German
Graf Dackula
Max Osswald, Merle Goll
2025German
La den rette komme inn
John Ajvide Lindqvist
2018Norwegian (Bokmål)
Lover Awakened
J. R. Ward
2006
Lukas & Greta - Das Geheimnis der alten Villa
Rocio Bonilla, Ulrich Maske
2025Catalan
Meine schlimme Geschichte!!! - Tagebuch einer Vampirin
Sina Flammang, Kathrin Rödl
2025German
Meine übelst schlimme Geschichte!!! - Tagebuch einer Vampirin
Sina Flammang, Kathrin Rödl
2025German
The Gates of Sleep
Mercedes Lackey, Kayla Fell
2002
- Read free
The book of were-wolves
Sabine Baring-Gould
1865
Computational Elasticity
Mohammed Ameen
2005
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
Charlaine Harris
2001
Earth, air, fire & water
Scott Cunningham
1991
The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice
1988
Fool Moon
Jim Butcher, Mark Powers, Chase Conley, Tyler Walpole, James Marsters
2001
Il sistema periodico
Primo Levi
1975
The Complete Book of Enzyme Therapy
Anthony J. Cichoke
1998
Bitten
Kelley Armstrong, Aasne Vigesaa
2001