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 two talismans
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1846
The ugly duck and other tales
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The ugly duckling and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1866
The vampire
John Dorset
1821
The vampire
Alan Dundes
1998
The vampire
Thomas M. Bohn
2019
The vampire film
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
2012
The vampire film
Alain Silver, James Ursini
1994
The vampire in contemporary popular literature
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
2014
The vampire in legend, art and fact
Basil Copper
1993
The wild swans
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The world wonderful
Charles Squire
1898
Theorizing Twilight
Maggie Parke, Natalie Wilson
2011
Tiny and her vanity, or, Self opinion
Alfred Crowquill
1857
Tuscan fairy tales
Vernon Lee, J. Stanley, Edmund Evans
1880
Ultimate Avengers
Mark Millar
2011
Under the sunset
Bram Stoker
1882
Urashima, the fisher-boy
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1895
Vampire culture
Maria Mellins
2013
Vampire films around the world
James R. Aubrey
2020
Vampire legends in contemporary American culture
William Patrick Day
2002
Vampirella
Mark Millar
2002
Vampires
Jim Pipe
2006
Vampires
Bernhardt J Hurwood
1981