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
- 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
The Land of Stories
Chris Colfer
1890
The Last Vampire
Christopher Pike
1994
The Last Vampire 2. Black Blood
Christopher Pike
1994
The Last Vampire 3. Red Dice
Christopher Pike
1994
The Lost Scrolls
Tom Mason, Dan Danko
2007
The Lost Scrolls
Michael Teitelbaum
2007
The Periodic Table
Adrian Dingle
2007
The Princess Nobody
Andrew Lang, Richard Doyle
1884
The Queen of Nothing
Holly Black
2019
The Reckoning
Kelley Armstrong
2010
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Stephenie Meyer
2009
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
2003
The Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer
2008
The Vampire Diaries
Lisa Jane Smith
1991
The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
1994
The Wrath & the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
1700
The lost mind
Christopher Pike
1995
The quest for paradise
Elisabetta Dami, Titi Plumederat, David Nel·lo
2006
Una corte de niebla y furia
Sarah J. Maas
2014
Una granita di mosche per il Conte
Elisabetta Dami
2000
Unmasked
Lisa Jane Smith, Aubrey Clark
2000
Unspoken
Lisa Jane Smith
2013
Vampire Kisses
Ellen Schreiber
2003
Vampire Kisses 2
Ellen Schreiber
2005