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
La filosofia arrovescio, ovvero, Dialogo intorno a gl'elementi per cagione del fulmine
Benedetto Rassinesi
1699Italian
La langue française dans les départements de l'Est
Joseph Wirth
1867French
La marca del vampiro
Florentino Hidalgo
2019Spanish
La stirpe di Dracula
Massimo Introvigne
1997Italian
La théorie atomique et al théorie dualistique
Emile Oscar Lenoble
1896French
La tyrannie des fées detruite, ou, L'origine de la machine de Marli
Louise de Bossigny Comtesse d' Auneuil
1756French
Laff al-qimāṭ ʻalá taṣḥīḥ baʻḍ mā istaʻmalat'hu al-ʻāmmah min al-muʻarrab wa-al-dakhīl wa-al-muwallad wa-al-aghlāṭ
Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Nawab of Bhopal
1879Multiple languages
Lappiske eventyr og folkesagn
J. Qvigstad
1887Norwegian
Las almas muertas también escriben
María Casanovas Cacho
2023Spanish
Le Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection des contes des fées, et autres contes merveilleux
Charles-Joseph Mayer
1787French
Le Darwinisme et l'expression des émotions chez l'homme et chez les animaux
Alphonse Joseph Lecomte
1881French
Le Prince Lutin
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1820French
Le Prince des Aigues Marines
Louise Cavelier Lévesque
1744French
Le Prince des Aigues Marines et Le prince invisible, contes
Louise Cavelier Lévesque
1744French
Le conte
Eugène Jean Baptiste Louis Joseph Lefébure
1885French
Le jardin des racines greques
Claude Lancelot
1719French
Le livre des vampires
Manuela Dunn-Mascetti
1993French
Le magasin des fées de Perrault, de Mme Leprince de Baumont, de Fénélon et de Mme d'Aulnoy
Charles Perrault
1852French
Le maitre chat, ou, Le chat botté
Charles Perrault
1800French
Le mecanique du feu, ou, L'art d'en augmenter les effets, & d'en diminuer la déponse
A. W. Gauger
1749French
Le miroir obscur
Stéphane Du Mesnildot
2013French
Le musée des vampires
Roland Villeneuve, Jean-Louis Degaudenzi
1976
Le mythe de la mère Lusine (Meurlusine, Merlusine, Mellusigne, Mellusine, Mélusine, Méleusine)
Léo Desaivre
1883French
Le nain jaune
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1878French