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
Flower Fairies of the Autumn Celebration
Cicely Mary Barker
1926
- Read free
L'oiseau bleu
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville baronne d' Aulnoy
1811French
Open graves, open minds
Sam George, Bill Hughes
2013
Spindle's End
Robin McKinley
2000
Wo ai xi xue gui (Fan Ti)
Jirō Akagawa
1994Chinese
Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte
Michael Ende
1973
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker, Bram Bram Stoker
1937
Scary stories to tell in the dark
Alvin Schwartz
1605
The Egyptian Cinderella
Shirley Climo
1989
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg
Gail Carson Levine, David Christiana, Hannah Gordon
2005
Fear Street Super Chiller - Goodnight Kiss
Robert Lawrence Stine
1992
Beauty and the Beast
Jan Brett
1989
Coppelia
Margot Fonteyn, Léo Delibes
1870
It Came from Beneath the Sink
Robert Lawrence Stine
1995
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
2011
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jan Brett
1987
Marked
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast
2007
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, John Glore
1992
Vampire Breath
Robert Lawrence Stine
1996
- Read free
Aus dem Orient
Heinrich Karl Brugsch
1864German
- Read free
Contes des fées
Charles Perrault, Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
1800French
- Read free
Fautes à corriger une chaque jour
Alphonse Lusignan
1890French
- Read free
Les Mille et un jours
François Pétis de La Croix
1826French
- Read free
Premier livre des éléments de géométrie d'Euclide
Euclid
1853French