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
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
Red Book of Appin
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
1863
- Read free
Round the Yule Log
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1881
- Read free
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
George Brisbane Douglas
1893
- Read free
Sixty folk-tales from exclusively Slavonic sources
Albert Henry Wratislaw
1889
- Read free
Tales of old Japan
A. B. Mitford
1871
- Read free
The Arabian Nights
Scheherazade
1849
- Read free
The Crock Of Gold
Sabine Baring-Gould
1899
- Read free
The Elements of Euclid
J. M. Williams
1838
- Read free
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
Euclid, Oliver Byrne, Werner Oechslin
1847
- Read free
The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
1818
- Read free
The captain of the Polestar
A. Conan Doyle
1893
- Read free
The circle and straight line
John of Montreal Harris
1874
- Read free
The pearl fountain, and other fairy tales
Bridget Kavanagh
1876
- Read free
Three Notelets on Shakespeare 1. Shakespeare in Germany by William J. Thomas
William John Thomas
1865
- Read free
Traditions and hearthside stories of West Cornwall
William Bottrell
1870
lille mareritt-butikken og den tannløse vampyren
Magdalena Hai
2020Finnish
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen, Johannes Larsen, R. P. Keigwin
1800
Normalsi
Janine Janssen
2025French
Le chat botté
Charles Perrault
1865
Vampire Mountain
Darren Shan
2001
The Blooding
Patricia Windsor
1996
Trăng non
Stephenie Meyer
2008
The reluctant dragon
Kenneth Grahame, Jim Weiss, Ernest H. Shepard, Michael Hague
1938
- Read free
Die Elfen in den englischen und schottischen Balladen ..
Friedrich Görbing
1899German