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
The Wicked King
Holly Black
2019
- Read free
Volksmărchen der Deutschen
Johann Karl August Musäus
1815German
Beauty
Robin McKinley
1978
Chosen
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast
2008
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
1997
Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer
2020
The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1896
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Paul Galdone
1974
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
1986
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
Robert Lawrence Stine
1993
Revolting rhymes
Roald Dahl
1982
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer
2003
Kissing the Witch
Emma Donoghue
1993
Midnight
Lisa Jane Smith
1991
Werewolves Don't Go To Summer Camp
Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones
1991
Flower Fairies of the Summer
Cicely Mary Barker
1925
Pinocchio, A story by Coloddi (adaptation)
Carlo Collodi, Charles Perrault
1896
The Complete Book of Flower Fairies
Cicely Mary Barker
1997
- Read free
A Christmas gift from fairy land
James Kirke Paulding
1838
- Read free
A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others Peculiar to Lower ...
C. Clough Robinson
1876
- Read free
A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy ...: With a Description of the Steam ..
Richard Green Parker
1848
- Read free
A book of fairy tales
Sabine Baring-Gould
1894
- Read free
A new history of Blue Beard
Gaffer Blackbeard
1806
- Read free
A peep at the pixies
Anna Eliza Bray, Hablot Knight Browne
1854