Tradition 24 of 35
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
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- Books
- 2,922
- Earliest
- 1144
- to 2026
- Read free
- 39%
- 1,150 with public full text
- With covers
- 52%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,420
- Metadata match26
- Query match1,475
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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Key subjects
- Fairy tales1K
- Juvenile fiction443
- Fairies390
- Fiction375
- Vampires285
- Folklore245
- Children's stories184
- Children's fiction180
- Conduct of life168
- Children137
- Tales128
- Werewolves123
- Juvenile literature113
- Vampir111
- Foreign elements110
- Fantasy107
- Early works to 1800102
- Magic95
- Vampires, fiction93
- Fantasy fiction92
- Euclid's Elements88
- Specimens83
- History69
- Legends61
Top languages
- English1,775 · 61%
- German448 · 15%
- French257 · 9%
- Latin42 · 1%
- Japanese36 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Hans Christian Andersen54 in this tradition103 books
- Charles Perrault51 in this tradition76 books
- Andrew Lang29 in this tradition83 books
- Jacob Grimm25 in this tradition55 books
- Walter Crane25 in this tradition50 books
- Wilhelm Grimm24 in this tradition53 books
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy24 in this tradition26 books
- Euclid20 books
- Wenzel Müller15 in this tradition20 books
- Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]14 in this tradition20 books
- Harriet Muncaster14 books
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen13 in this tradition28 books
2,922 books
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, David Brian
1871
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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry
William Butler Yeats
1888
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Japanese fairy world
William Elliot Griffis, Ozawa
1880
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Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains
Maria Elise Turner Lauder, Toofie Lauder, Maria Elise T.T Lauder
1881
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Myths and folk-tales of the Russians, western Slavs, and the Magyars
Jeremiah Curtin
1890
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Old-fashioned fairy tales
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alfred Walter Bayes, Gordon Browne
1800
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Welsh Fairytales and Other Stories
Peter Henry Emerson
1894
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Grimm's fairy tales
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Richard André, ill P. G., Frances Jenkins Olcott, Rie Cramer, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Charles Charles Pomeroy Otis, Otto Ubbelohde, Alfred William Hunt, Andrew Lang, Friedrich Schiller, William Henry Van der Smissen, Herman Friedrich Grimm, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim
1812German
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The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole, Henry Morley
1764
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Deutsche Sagen
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Herman Friedrich Grimm, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1816German
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A history of the ridiculous extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle
Laurent Bordelon, M Oufle, Abbot B-----
1711
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Flower Fables
Louisa May Alcott
1854
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Indian fairy tales
Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten, Eva González Rosales, Helen Baker, Gloria Cardew, Ed Jacobs, Joseph Joseph Jacobs, Hanson & Co. bkp CU-BANC Ballantyne, Hampstead Bindery. bnd CU-BANC, Hanson and Co. bkp CU-BANC Ballantyne
1800
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Laboulaye's fairy book
Edouard Laboulaye, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Edward McCandlish, Mary Mary Louise Booth
1866
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More English fairy tales
Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
1894
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Popular tales
Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang, Harry Clarke, Jean Edmond Mansion, Robert Samber, Planché, James Robinson, 1796-1880, comp. and tr, Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy
1675
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The Coming of the Fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle
1922
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The Pink Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang, Henry Justice Ford
1897
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The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang, Henry Justice Ford
1894
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The bee-man of Orn
Frank Richard Stockton
1887
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The heroes, or, Greek fairy tales for my children
Charles Kingsley, Grace Rhys
1855
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Twilight land
Howard Pyle
1894
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A little book of profitable tales
Eugene Field
1889
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Fairy Tales from All Nations
Anthony Rubens Montalba, Richard Doyle, Anthony Anthony Reubens Montalba
1849