Tradition 24 of 33
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
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
Vampires & violets
Andrea Weiss
1992
Vampires in Italian cinema
Michael Guarneri
2020
Vampires, burial, and death
Paul Barber
1988
Vampires, race, and transnational Hollywoods
Dale M Hudson
2017
Vampirglaube und magia posthuma im Diskurs der Habsburgermonarchie
Christoph Augustynowicz, Ursula Reber
2011
Virgins & vampires
Joe Rosenblatt
1975
What the moon saw
H. C. Andersen
1865
Wonderful stories for children
Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Botham Howitt, Mary Howitt
1846
Wymps
Evelyn Sharp
1897
Zur Kritik und Erklärung des Tristan Gottfrieds von Strassburg ..
Johannes Kottenkamp
1879
"Je veux revenir"
Clemens Ruthner
1990German
"Vampire gestern und heute"
Claudia Bräuer
2002German
Abhandlung des Daseyns der Gespenster, nebst einem Anhange vom Vampyrismus (von Gerard van Swieten)
Andreas I Mayer, Gerard van Swieten
1768German
An otiosi diutius vivant an Caboriosi? An Sangiusugorum, Vampyrs dictorum, actio sit supernaturalis an naturalis
Joannes Jacobus Freundt de Weyenberg
1732Latin
Le Baron Vampire
Guy de Charnacé
1885French
"Like love is primal?”
Sara Davin
2017German
... Ausgewählte märchen
Hans Christian Andersen
1870German
100 Jahre Dracula
Rainer M. Köppl
1998
A Missing Heart (Gildenjäger Chroniken 2)
Martina Riemer
2025German
A Simple Life of a Vampire
H. L. Wizart Ziegler
2026German
A missing heart
Martina Riemer
2025German
A szláv szók a magyar nyelvben
Oszkar Asboth, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
1893Hungarian
A. L. Grimm's Märchenbuch
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1877German
Abenteuer im Sonnenuntergang
Rebekka Saris
2025German