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
More fairy tales from the Arabian nights
John D. Batten
1895
Mother Goose nursery tales
Rosamund Marriott Watson
1859
Mythos Vampir-bissige Lektüren
Thomas M Bohn, Kirsten von Hagen
2018
New Arabian nights' entertainments
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
1826
New fairy tales from Brentano
Clemens Brentano
1888
New world of words
Edward Phillips
1671
Nimphidia
Michael Drayton
1896
Norse words in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle
Albert E. Egge
1898
Northern fairy tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1880
Norwegian fairy tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1895
Nymphidia
Michael Drayton
1814
Oberon's horn
Henry Morley
1861
Of chimney fire-places
Benjamin Graf von Rumford
1796
Old Deccan days, or, Hindoo fairy legends current in Southern India
Mary Frere
1868
Old tales for the young
F. P. Palmer
1855
Old-fashioned fairy tales
Roberts Brothers
1882
Oliver and the fairies of Glas-Leac Mor
Judith A Finlayson
2005
On a new class of electro-chemical phenomena
Leopoldo Nobili
1827
On elements and meta-elements
William Crookes
1888
On the multiple proportions of the atomic weights of elementary substances in relation to the unit of hydrogen
Henry Wilde
1895
On the natural groupings of the elements
William Odling
1857
On the spectra and composition of the elements
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
1866
On the unsuitableness of Euclid as a textbook of geometry
Joshua Jones
1870
On the wave lengths of the spectral lines of the elements
Wolcott Gibbs
1869