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
The Home treasury of old story books
Henry Sir Cole
1859
The Living and the undead
Gregory Albert Waller
2010
The Magic ring
Robert S. Bross, Johann Gottfried Herder
1861
The Radleys
Matt Haig
2010
The Scandinavian element in English
Albert E. Egge
1897
The adventure of Hunch-Back, and the stories connected with it, (from the Arabian nights entertainments)
Robert Smirke, William Daniell
1814
The adventures of Max & Draggy
Rebecca Richmond
2019
The ant, and the nightingale: or Father Hubburds tales
Thomas Middleton
1604
The beautiful
Renée Ahdieh
2019
The bedside, bathtub, and armchair companion to Dracula
Mark Dawidziak
2008
The beginning of the end
Steve Niles, Sam Kieth
2012
The bird talisman
Henry Allen Wedgwood
1887
The boy who drew cats
Lafcadio Hearn
1898
The chemistry of the non-metallic elements and their compounds
John Joseph Griffin
1860
The darkling
Jan L. Perkowski
1989
The elements of Euclid
John D. Craig
1818
The elements of Euclid
Alexander Ingram
1819
The elements of Euclid
Robert Simson
1775
The elements of Euclid
James Williamson B.D
1781
The elements of Euclid, explained and demonstrated in a new and most easy method
Claude-François Milliet Dechales, Reeve Williams
1685
The elements of Euclid, viz. the first six books together with the eleventh and twelfth
Robert Simson
1803
The elements of plane geometry
Thomas Keith
1814
The enchanted doll
Mark Lemon, Richard Doyle
1849
The enchanted waterfall
T. H. Mrs James
1895