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
Gender in the vampire narrative
Amanda Jo Hobson, U. Melissa Anyiwo
2016
Genesis of the elements
William Sir Crookes
1887
George Cruikshank's fairy library
Francis Bullard, George Cruikshank, Grenville Lindall Winthrop
1890
George Cruikshank's fairy library
George Cruikshank
1860
German fairy tales and popular stories
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Edgar Taylor, George Cruikshank, Ludwig Emil Grimm
1856
German household tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
1897
German popular tales
Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
1800
Glenshee
Antony Mackenzie Smith
2000
Gothicka
Victoria Nelson
2012
Graf Drakula
Tatʹi︠a︡na Andreevna Mikhaĭlova, Mikhail Odesskiĭ, Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ gumanitarnyĭ universitet, Т. А. Михайлова, М. П. Одесский, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет
2019
Grimm's goblins
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, George Cruikshank
1867
Grimm's goblins
George Cruikshank
1867
Grimm's household fairy tales
Ella Boldey, R. André
1890
Grimms' goblins
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hablot Knight Browne, Edmund Evans, George Vickers
1859
High bloods
John Farris
2012
Holme Lee's [i.e. Harriet Parr] fairy tales
Holme Lee
1868
Home stories
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Matilda Louisa Davis, George Thompson
1855
Hop o' My Thumb
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
1880
Hop-o' my-Thumb and the seven-league boots
George Cruikshank
1853
Hours in fairy land
Josephine Pollard
1883
Household stories, from the collection of the bros
Jacob Grimm, Lucy Crane, Walter Crane, Wilhelm Grimm
1883
Huict livres des Eléments d'Euclide rendus plus faciles
Claude-François Milliet Dechales
1685
Hunting ground
Patricia Briggs
2009
Hunting the fairies
Compton Mackenzie
1949