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
Little Mr. Thimblefinger stories
Joel Chandler Harris
1894
Little Prudy's fairy book
Sophie May
1865
Little Red Riding Hood
M. A. Hoyer
1890
Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault
1895
Little Red Riding Hood, The fairy, and Blue Beard
Charles Perrault
1797
Little Rudy, and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1864
Little Snowdrop
Grace C. Floyd
1896
Little Wanderlin, and other fairy tales
Annie Keary
1865
Little Zee
Julia Daniels Moseley
1881
Longnose the dwarf and other fairy tales
Wilhelm Hauff, Percy Pinkerton
1884
Magic wool fairies
Christine Schäfer
2011
Magic wool mermaids and fairies
Christine Schäfer
2021
Magic wool mermaids, fairies and nymphs through the seasons
Christine Schäfer
2014
Man into wolf
Robert Eisler, Donald Lathrop
1978
Manifesting with the fairies
Karen Kay
2023
Masques
Patricia Briggs
2010
Mathematics no mystery, or, The beauties and uses of Euclid
George Jacob Holyoake
1866
Matsuyama kagami
T. H. Mrs James
1888
Mercy Thompson
Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence, Amelia Woo, Francis Tsai
2009
Merket
Phyllis Christine Cast, Kristin Cast
2011
Messages from nature's guardians
Fiona Murray
2009
Midsummer eve
S. C. Mrs Hall
1849
Miss Muffet's Christmas party
Samuel McChord Crothers
1891
Moonbeams and brownies
Roma White
1894