Tradition 24 of 33
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,294
- Earliest
- 1144
- to 2026
- Read free
- 34%
- 442 with public full text
- With covers
- 62%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match996
- Metadata match21
- Query match277
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
- Fiction282
- Vampires246
- Juvenile fiction166
- Fairies152
- Children's fiction122
- Vampir111
- Werewolves111
- Fairy tales91
- Fantasy89
- Vampires, fiction89
- Fantasy fiction66
- Films de vampires57
- Folklore54
- Horror tales42
- Vampyrer42
- Magic40
- Fiction, fantasy, general39
- Fiction, horror36
- Text36
- History35
- Vampires in literature34
- Horror stories33
- Children's stories32
- Dans la littérature32
Top languages
- English744 · 57%
- German287 · 22%
- French63 · 5%
- Japanese31 · 2%
- Dutch29 · 2%
Notable authors
All authors- Andrew Lang16 in this tradition25 books
- Wenzel Müller15 in this tradition17 books
- Harriet Muncaster14 books
- Anne Rice12 in this tradition16 books
- Stephenie Meyer12 in this tradition13 books
- Kristin Cast10 books
- P. C. Cast10 books
- Patricia Briggs10 books
- Robert Lawrence Stine9 in this tradition49 books
- James Matthew Barrie9 in this tradition10 books
- Kelley Armstrong9 in this tradition10 books
- Christoph Martin Wieland7 in this tradition12 books
1,294 books

Burned
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast
2011

Fire Falling (Air Awakens Series Book 2) (Volume 2)
Elise Kova
2015

Kleiner Werwolf
Cornelia Funke
1999Catalan

Rage of Lions (Wereworld)
Curtis Jobling
2013

The Periodic Table Book
Tom Jackson
2017

Whatever After Boxset, Books 1-6 (Whatever After)
Sarah Mlynowski
2015

Wolf Pact
Melissa De La Cruz
2012
The night wanderer
Drew Hayden Taylor
2007

Daylighters
Rachel Caine
2014
Man-Eating Monsters
2019

Shivers
M. D. Spenser
Date unknown
Abjection, madness and xenophobia in Gothic fiction
Christian Wenk
2008
- Read free
La Jeune Vampire
1920French
Elja ŭi hain
Chi-yŏng Kang, 강 지영
2024Korean
- Read free
Les Étrennes d’un vampire
Date unknownFrench
Am Rande
Clemens Ruthner
2004German
Der Anfang von Dracula
Dieter Harmening
1983German
Anno Dracula
Kim Newman, Paul McCaffrey, Thomas Mohr
1994
Becoming vampire
Simon Bacon
2017
Bram Stoker's Dracula and the vampire genre
Dirk Lutschewitz
2014
Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film
Erik Butler
2010
Our vampires, ourselves
Nina Auerbach
1995
The vampire lectures
Laurence A. Rickels
1999
Undead memory
Simon Bacon, Katarzyna Bronk
2013