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
Fables and fairy tales
Henry Morley
1860
- Read free
Fables and folk stories
Horace Elisha Scudder
1890
- Read free
Fairy Tales for Little Readers
Sarah J. Burke
1894
- Read free
Fairy Tales from All Nations
Anthony Rubens Montalba
1849
- Read free
Fairy book
Rebecca Sophia Clarke
1865
- Read free
Fairy dreams, or, Wanderings in elf-land
Jane G. Austin
1859
- Read free
Fairy legends of the French provinces
Martha Ward Carey
1887
- Read free
Fairy life
John H. Haaren
1896
- Read free
Fairy tales
Skimble Skamble
1869
- Read free
Fairy tales and legends of many nations
Charles B. Burkhardt
1850
- Read free
Fairy tales and novels
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1817
- Read free
Fairy tales far and near
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1895
- Read free
Fairy tales, legends and romances illustrating Shakespeare and other early English writers, to which are prefixed two preliminary dissertations
Joseph Ritson
1875
- Read free
Fairy-lure
Carolyn Norris Horwitz
1891
- Read free
Favourite fairy tales
John Corner
1861
- Read free
Fireside fairies
Susan Pindar
1852
- Read free
Folk and fairy tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1883
- Read free
General medicine chemistry for the use of practitioners of medicine
Rudolph August Witthaus
1881
- Read free
Geometry Without Axioms; Or the First Book of Euclid's Elements. With Alterations and Familiar ..
T. Perronet Thompson
1833
- Read free
Geometry in space, containing parts of Euclid's eleventh and twelfth books and some properties of polyhedra and solids of revolution, with exercises
R. C. J. Nixon
1888
- Read free
German popular stories
Edgar Taylor, Jacob Ludwig C. Grimm
1876
- Read free
Goblin tales of Lancashire
James Bowker
1887
- Read free
Grimm's fairy tales
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
1888
- Read free
Hans Andersen's story book
Hans Christian Andersen
1860