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
Early modern European witchcraft : centres and peripheries
Bengt Ankarloo, Gustav Henningsen
1990
Emma and the vampires
Wayne Josephson
2010
Fright Night
NOW Comics
1988
Monsters no more: how we came to love the denizens of the dark
Kristen Hutchinson
2025
Nature Spirits: Selected Lectures
Rudolf Steiner, Wolf-Ulrich Klünker
2005
Patty and her pitcher, or, Kindness of heart
Alfred Crowquill
1857
Physiological and biochemical aspects of heavy elements in our environment
1899
Slaying the Vampires, Werewolves and Demons of Ineffective Leadership
Aditya Simha
2025
Stagestruck vampires & other phantasms
Suzy McKee Charnas
2004
The book of the thousand nights and a night
Scheherazade
1894
The chemical elements
Helen Miles Davis
1952
- Read free
The good child's fairy gift
1852
The hundred riddles of the fairy Bellaria
Charles Godfrey Leland
1892
The psychology of vampires
David Cohen
2019
Transfusion
Steve Niles
2013
Utvalgt
Phyllis Christine Cast, Kristin Cast
2010
Vampires
John Steakley
2008
Vampires are so boring
David Orme, Helen Orme
2013
Vampires at sea
Lindsay Merbaum
2025
Of plagues and vampires
Michael Hefferon
2017
The bite, the breast and the blood
Amy Williams Wilson
2018
The guide to mysterious Perthshire
Geoff Holder
2006
Club dead
Charlaine Harris
2003
The aesthetics of culture in "Buffy the vampire slayer"
Matthew Pateman
2006