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
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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
Friends and foes from fairy land
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne, Brabourne
1886
- Read free
The Phantom (Boucicault)
Dion Boucicault
1856
Isadora Moon va la colegio
Harriet Muncaster
2020
al-Shafaq
Stephenie Meyer
2009Arabic
- Read free
A table of combining weights
University of Toronto
1854
- Read free
A text-book of Euclid's elements
Euclid
1888
- Read free
Aladdin
Walter Crane
1890
- Read free
Ali Baba and the forty thieves
Walter Crane
1898
- Read free
An introduction to Shakespeare's Midsummer night's dream
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1841
- Read free
Arabian Nights
Andrew Lang
1898
- Read free
Austral English
Edward Ellis Morris
1898
- Read free
British Goblins
Wirt Sikes
1880
- Read free
Davy and the goblin
Charles E. Carryl
1885
- Read free
Dealings with the Fairies
George MacDonald
1867
- Read free
Drei Märchen für Alt und Jung
Georg Moritz Ebers
1890
- Read free
Elements
Euclid
1482
- Read free
Elements of geometry, containing books I and II with exercises and notes
J. Hamblin Smith, Euclides, Thomas Kirkland
1873
- Read free
Etymology of "Toronto"
Henry Scadding
1891
- Read free
Euclidian geometry
Francis Cuthbertson
1874
- Read free
Fairy Tales
John Thackray Bunce
1878
- Read free
Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
John Thackray Bunce
1879
- Read free
Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry
William Butler Yeats
1888
- Read free
Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland
Thomas Crofton Croker
1825
- Read free
Fairy tales from far Japan
Susan Ballard
1898