Goblins

Goblins are regarded as a fowl race by many adventurers.  In fact there are very few stories in which goblins are regarded favoritively. One of these being Goblin Hero and this story is from the goblin's point of veiw.  Goblins like to stop adventures or hamper them in some way. In some cases they will go as far to eat the adventurers or their ponies.  In the Hobbit the adventures are waylaid by goblins and ultimately almost get eaten by them, only being saved by the wizard Gandelf in the last moment.  Goblins are considered to be ugly and about four to five feet tall with hunched backs.  They have their own culture and to a goblin their might is their most important aspect.   If a golbin cannon't defend himself from others often times other golbins will resort to culling their own kind.  In some cases goblins are thought to kill their own species and eat them.   In many books goblins have a sense of comrodrady but in just as many cases they are by nature solitary as to save themselves from being attacked by others of their race.  Gobins are careful and its well known that you can't trust a goblin in many books and stories.  In the same books goblins are often considered malicious or maline and in some cases are considered to be the villans.

Fey

The fey, fair folk, or faries are a race of people that include many diffrent types of humanoid people.   These include, Dwarves, Faries, Elves and Brownies to name a few.  Dwarves have the most deminutive stature and stand three to four feet tall according to diffrent books.  Dwarves are proven to be reclusive beings and fond of working in mines and searching for treasure.  Dwarven made tools are famous in many books of being of the best quality.  Faries however are deminutive, only a few inches tall in some talkes and as tall as humans in others.  In some cases they are thought to be wise, in others mischivious and sometimes are considered rather brainless.  As a little girl I loved faries as many little girls do and was facenated by them.  Elves are the tallest of the races, taller then humans, they are thought to be fond of drink and making merry.   Elves are on the whole an interesting race and although there are few books about them they continue to captivate others.   Brownies take care of the home and are about the size of dwarves.  Brownies sometimes play tricks on others but for the most part will help in return for some milk.  In J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series the role of brownies are replaced with House elves.  The fey will continue to captivate the minds of others for many years to come.

Vampires

Vampires have reacently recived a makeover thanks to the Twlight series by Stephanie Mayer.  Her vampires don't go out in sun due to their sparkily skin, which is a departure from the more traditonal vampire.  The first famous book about vampires is Dracula by Bram Stroker.  There were many more to fallow, Anne Rice was the first to give vampires a sense of humanity in her books.  Traditonal vampires sleep during the day and come out during the night due to the harmful effect the sun has upon their skin.   Vampires seem to have a culture as mixed as our own and there are many books about them.  Most notably are teen books about vampires and half a dozen writers at least seek to please teen audiances with vampire love stories.  Vampires however are dangerous according to legends and not to be taken lightly.  According to these same legends they are not easy to kill and the most surefire way to kill a vampire is to stab them through the heart with a stake.  Vampires live indefinately off of the blood of their victums, as the price of their eternal life they either have to turn or kill their victums.  Vampires often wind up draining their victums dry.  There are several ways of turning a human one of them being the sharing of blood with the vampire.   Vampires pose a threat to society in most novels and as such are often protrayed as outcasts from it

Leprechans

Leprechans are little people who are by and large a part of Irish heritage and myth.  They are facnating and mischievious creatures.  They leave pots of gold at the ends of rainbows and have to be captured in order to give their gold to their kidnappers.  Leprechans can do tricks to those that capture them, often times would be kidnappers wind up being tricked in turn.   Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfler is one book where a boy kidnaps a fairy and it focuses on how the fairy people attempt to get their operative back.   This sereis spans at least five volumes although the fairy is released in the first one where Artemis ultimately winds up working with the faires instead of against them.  These books are entertaining and add their own take to the fairy lore surrounding leprechans.   Leprechans can be regarded as fey in some cases or in others are considered their own specification however by and large Leprechans are refered to as the wee folk, which essentually means that they are much like dwarves and hobbits.   Leprechans resemble humans in looks although not in stature.  They are considered to be about three feet tall and this can help them to hide from their human counterparts more easily then someone the size of a human would manage.