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
The night wanderer
Drew Hayden Taylor
2007

Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp
Walter Crane, Edmund Evans
1875

Daylighters
Rachel Caine
2014
- Read free
Fairy tales and fancies
Anna Siedenburg
1895

Jack the giant killer
Hugh Thomson
1898
- Read free
The dream of little Tuk, and other tales
H. C. Andersen, Charles Boner, Franz Graf von Pocci
1848
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
Sleeping Beauty
1880
- 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 falls of Clyde, or, The fairies
John Black
1806
The vampire lectures
Laurence A. Rickels
1999
Undead memory
Simon Bacon, Katarzyna Bronk
2013
A key to the exercises in the first six books of Casey's Elements of Euclid
Joseph B. Casey
1885