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
Fairy tales from gold lands
May Wentworth
1867
- Read free
French elements in Middle English
Frederick Henry Sykes
1899
- Read free
Gradations in Euclid
Henry Green
1858
- Read free
Hebraisms in the Greek Testament
William Henry Guillemard
1879
- Read free
Indian fairy tales
Maive S. H. Stokes, Maive Stokes
1879
- Read free
Indian fairy tales
Mark Thornhill
1888
- Read free
Italian popular tales
Thomas Frederick Crane
1885
- Read free
Japanese fairy world
William Elliot Griffis
1880
- Read free
King Longbeard
Barrington MacGregor
1898
- Read free
Laboulaye's fairy book
Edouard Laboulaye
1866
- Read free
Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains
Maria Elise Turner Lauder
1881
- Read free
Lessons in elementary physiology
Thomas Henry Huxley
1866
- Read free
Little Red Riding Hood
Andrew Lang
1890
- Read free
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Eleanor Farjeon
1921
- Read free
Moonfolk
Jane G. Austin
1874
- Read free
My own fairy book
Andrew Lang, Gordon Browne, T. Scott
1895
- Read free
Myths and folk-tales of the Russians, western Slavs, and the Magyars
Jeremiah Curtin
1890
- Read free
Nada the Lily
H. Rider Haggard
1890
- Read free
Narodnye russkie skazki
A. N. Afanasʹev
1873
- Read free
Old Deccan days
Mary Frere
1868
- Read free
Old-fashioned fairy tales
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
1800
- Read free
Pan Tadeusz
Adam Mickiewicz
1834
- Read free
Pentamerone
Giovanni Battista Basile
1850
- Read free
Questions and problems in elementary physics, containing numerous practical examples and exercises for use of pupils in high schools and academies
C. L. Hotze
1878