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
Our favourite fairy tales and famous histories
H. W. Dulcken
1858
Owl people
Letty Wilson
2022
Pangeometria; or the elements of all geometry...
Benjamin Martin
1739
Phantoms & fairies
Forbes Inglis
2010
Poor Polidori
David Lorne Macdonald
1991
Popular fairy tales
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1863
Popular rhymes, fireside stories, and amusements of Scotland
Robert Chambers
1842
Practical vampyrism for modern vampyres
LG
2005
Pressure of wind on chimneys
James Bicheno Francis
1873
Prince Dorus
Charles Lamb
1889
Prince Life
G. P. R. James
1856
Princess Charming
H. T. Arden
1867
Produce of lead ore and lead in the United Kingdom for the year ...
Robert Hunt
1851
Psychoanalysis and sovereignty in popular vampire fictions
Anna Powell
2003
Queen Mab
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Thomas Parnell
1770
Queering the vampire narrative
Amanda Jo Hobson, U. Melissa Anyiwo
2024
Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault
1890
Relation of master and servant, as exhibited in the New Testament
S. Taylor
1836
Remarks on the new doctrine of the real objective presence as propounded by the ritualists
John Milner
1874
Russian fairy tales from the Russian of Polevoi
Petr Nikolaevich Polevoĭ
1893
Russian fairy tales from the Skazki of Polevoĭ
P. Polevoĭ
1893
Schippeitaro
T. H. Mrs James
1895
Scottish fairy belief
Lizanne Henderson
2001
Scottish fairy tales
George Brisbane Douglas
1892