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 history of vampires
Dudley Wright
1993
The little lame prince ; and, Adventures of a brownie
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1890
The magic of kindness, or, The wondrous story of the good Huan
Henry Mayhew
1869
The mirror, or, Fairy world displayed
William Lane
1788
The mission of the fairies
Ellen M Barstow
1869
The oriental moralist
Richard Johnson
1791
The palace of enchantment, or, Entertaining and instructive fairy tales
William Lane
1788
The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's Elements
Proclus Diadochus
1792
The pleasing companion
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, William Lane
1788
The prince of the Fair family
S. C. Mrs Hall
1867
The princess on the glass hill and other stories based on the tales in the 'Blue fairy book'
Andrew Lang
1890
The psychology of Macbeth
George Sexton, Joseph Crosby, Psychological Society of Glasgow
1869
The ratio between diameter and circumference in a circle demonstrated by angles, and Euclid's theorem, proposition 32, book 1, proved to be fallacious
James Smith
1870
The relative abundance of the chemical elements
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1889
The resistance of piles
Henry F. Perley
1894
The rose
Mary Martha Sherwood
1821
The silver shilling
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The silver swan
Clara de Chatelain
1847
The sleeping beauty
Charles Perrault
1870
The song of the harp
Rachel Penn, John Macqueen, John Williamson, Rogers Memorial Collection
1898
The story of the fisherman
Samuel Eliot
1880
The story teller
Hans Christian Andersen
1850
The tale of the living vampyre
Kevin Dodd, ProQuest
2021
The trials of John Duncan White alias Charles Marchant, and Winslow Curtis alias Sylvester Colson, for murder on the high seas of Edward Selfridge and Thomas P. Jenkins, captain and mate of the schooner Fairy, of Boston
John Duncan White
1827