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
- Read free
The blood of the vampire
Florence Marryat
Date unknown
- Read free
Heliothrix purpureiceps, Gould
John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter
1861
- Read free
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
James Matthew Barrie, Arthur Rackham
1906
- Read free
Peter and Wendy
James Matthew Barrie, F. D Bedford
Date unknown
- Read free
Der Vampyr, oder: Die Todtenbraut. Erster Theil.
Theodor Hildebrand
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
Der Vampyr, oder: Die Todtenbraut. Zweiter Theil.
Theodor Hildebrand
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren
Johann Christoph Pohl, Johann Gottlob Hertel
Date unknownLatin
- Read free
El Tresor del Vell Cavaller
Erckmann-Chatrian, Joan Sitjar
Date unknownCatalan
- Read free
Infernaliana
Charles Nodier
Date unknownFrench
- Read free
La maison des hommes vivants
Claude Farrère
Date unknownFrench
- Read free
Sudenmorsian
Aino Kallas
Date unknownFinnish
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
2005
- Read free
Vampyrismus
Gerard Swieten
Date unknownGerman
Earth Angels
Doreen Virtue
2002
- Read free
The Grey Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
1900
- Read free
列仙傳
Xiang Liu, Jinling Zhang
Date unknownChinese
- Read free
The Violet Fairy Book (Large Print)
Andrew Lang
1901
- Read free
The Pink Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang
1897
- Read free
The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
Charles Kingsley
1863
- Read free
Indian Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs, Gloria Cardew, Ed Jacobs, John Dickson Batten, Joseph Joseph Jacobs
1892
- Read free
Racketty-packetty house
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1906
Moon called
Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence, Amelia Woo, Zach Matheny
2005
- Read free
The Red Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
1890
The Vampire Armand
Anne Rice, Barbara Kesper
1998