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
De koele vampiers
J. Rechy
1973Dutch
De la lycanthropie, transformation et extase des sorciers
Jean de Nynauld
1615French
De la médication par les ferrugineux et plus particulièrement par l'eau de la Bauche
Guilland Dr
1865French
De nacht der vampiers
Tibet
1982Dutch
De spiritvali mandvcatione corporis Christi
Antoine de Chandieu
1590Latin
De vallei der vampiers
John Buscema
1979Dutch
De vampiers
Robert Chester Ruark
1971Dutch
De vampiers van Finistere
Peter Saxon
1975Dutch
De vocibus Novi Testamenti Aramicis
Ericus Hesselgren, Petrus N. Hofwerberg, Ericus Mellenius, Jacobus Selggren
1761Latin
Deca mrtvih
Elfriede Jelinek, Dušan Nikolić
2024German
Del meccanismo col quale l'aria, e il fuoco elementare si fissano nei misti, e diventano principj costitutivi di quei corpi, nei quali si trovano
Candido Pistoj
1775Italian
Der Kampf der Krabbe mit dem Affen
A. Groth
1885German
Der Mythos Vampire verstehen
Anna Anton
2026German
Der Vampir Dragor
Norbert Schustek
2026German
Der geheime Schatz der Vampire
Maja von Vogel, Alica Räth
2026German
Der schrullige Vampir
Markus Grentschnig
2026German
Derniers contes bleus
Edouard Laboulaye
1884French
Deutsche Sagen und Märchen
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1872German
Deutsche Volks-Mährchen
Franz Hoffmann
1846German
Deutsche Volksmärchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbürgen
Josef Haltrich
1882German
Deuxième supplément aux Recherches nouvelles sur les porismes d'Euclide
P. Breton
1858French
Dialogue de la lycanthropie ou transformation d'hommes en loups, vulgairement dits loups-garous, et si telle se peut faire
Claude Prieur, Jan Maes, Philippus Zangrius
1596French
Diccionario abreviado de galicismos, provincialismos y correcciones de lenguaje
Rafael Uribe Uribe
1887Spanish
Die "phantastische Seuche"
Anja Lauper
2011German