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
Aberglaube aller Zeiten
Wilhelm Fischer
1906German
Auf dem Wege zu einer sozialen Psychophysiologie des akuten Vampirismus
Hans Dieter Mummendey
1977
Bang voor vampiers? en andere verhalen
1999Dutch
Begierde - Niemand liebt ewig - The Hunger
Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
2000
Brennen muß Salem
Stephen King
1985German
Brokatowe ubieranki
2024Polish
Chi fu xiao zi
Renate Welsh, Heribert Schulmeyer, Shixun Li
2016Chinese
Conquest en de vampiers
Berkeley Gray
1972Dutch
Curieuse und sehr wunderbare Relation von denen sich neuer Dingen in Servien erzeigenden Blut-Saugern oder Vampyrs, aus auth. Nachrichten mitgeth. vnd mit Histor. und Philosoph. Reflexionen begleitet von W. S. G. E
W. S. G. E
1732German
De lamiis liber. Item de commentitiis jejuniis (etc.)
Johannes Wier
1577Latin
Der aufgeklärte Vampirdiskurs im deutschsprachigen Raum des 18. Jahrhunderts
Florian Kneringer
2013
Die Anthropologie und Weltanschauung der Vampyr-Subkultur
Matthias Christian Steiner
2012
Dracula e outros vampiros
Antunes Filho
1996Portuguese
Dracula un mito immortale
1997Italian
Histoire curieuse et pittoresque des sorciers, devins, magiciens, astrologues, voyants, revenants, âmes en peine, vampires, spectres, fantômes, apparitions, visions, gnomes, lutins, esprits malins, sorts jetés, exorcismes, etc., etc., etc
Mathias de Giraldo, M Fornari
1849French
Histoire vraie du vampirisme
Johannes Van Aken
1980French
I vampiri
Domenico Cammarota
1984Italian
Il vampiro redivivo
Carlo Bordoni, Federico De Zigno, Marin Mincu
1993Italian
L'humanisation progressive d’une figure de mythe
Emmanuelle Galinier, Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
2009French
L'énigme des vampires
Jean Markale
1991French
La Réinterprétation du mythe du vampire dans le cinéma américain des années 80-90
Maria Cristina Ruggieri, Francis Ramirez, Kristian Feigelson
1998French
La fortune de Dracula dans Dracula (1897) de Bram Stoker, Dracula (1931) de Tod Browning, Vampyr ou l'étrange aventure de David Gray (1932) de Carl Theodor Dreyer, Le bal des vampires (1967) de Roman Polanski
Clotilde Doucet, Philippe Postel
2004French
Le bal des vampires
Roman Polanski
1975French
Le vampire
Maria Cristina Ruggieri, François Thomas
2009French