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
Cinematic vampires
John L. Flynn
1992
Classic stories for the little ones
Lida B. McMurry
1894
Clean sweep
Ilona Andrews
2013
Clever Hans
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, J. Lawson
1880
Compendious expositor of English words derived from the Latin, Greek, and French
James Gough
1808
Contes du tems passé de ma mere l'oye
Charles Perrault, Robert Samber, Alexander Anderson, Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier
1795
Countering anthropocentrism
Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi
2025
Crosspatch the cricket and the counterpane
Frances Freeling Broderip
1865
Dance of the vampires and six other plays
Bole Butake
2013
Dead heat
Patricia Briggs
2015
Der bekannte Fremde
Oliver Hepp
2016
Diamonds and toads
Kate Greenaway
1870
Dissertations upon the apparitions of angels, daemons, and ghosts, and concerning the vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia
Augustin Calmet, François Poupart
1759
Dreams by French firesides
Richard von Volkmann
1890
Dreams, vampires and ghosts
Louise Child
2025
Echoes of an old bell
Augusta Bethell, Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl
1865
Elements of geometry
Euclid
1795
Elements of plane geometry according to Euclid
Andrew Bell, Robert Simson, John Playfair
1837
Enunciations and corollaries of the propositions of the six first books of Euclid, together with the eleventh and twelfth
Euclid
1835
Euclid's Elements of geometry
John Keill
1723
Euclid's elements of geometry, the first six books, chiefly from the text of Dr. Simson
Robert Potts
1876
Euclid, book V.
Euclid, Lewis Carroll
1874
Everything in its right place
Hans Christian Andersen
1870
Fair game
Patricia Briggs
2012