Tradition 21 of 33
Cryptozoology and Forteana
Cryptids, Bigfoot, lake monsters, anomalous animals, Fortean collections, and unexplained phenomena.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 665
- Earliest
- 1101
- to 2026
- Read free
- 30%
- 201 with public full text
- With covers
- 69%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match558
- Metadata match9
- Query match98
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
- Cryptozoology131
- Curiosities and wonders131
- Loch Ness monster95
- Cryptozoologie80
- KRYPTOZOOLOGIE73
- Monsters68
- Juvenile literature48
- Fiction37
- Folklore32
- History25
- Mythical animals25
- Sasquatch24
- Juvenile fiction19
- Monsters, juvenile literature19
- Sea monsters19
- Social Sciences18
- Ungeheuer18
- Zoology18
- Curiosities and wonders, juvenile literature17
- Bigfoot16
- Children's fiction16
- Animals15
- Animals, Mythical15
- Text15
Top languages
- English335 · 50%
- German121 · 18%
- French58 · 9%
- Latin45 · 7%
- NOT32 · 5%
Notable authors
All authors- Bernard Heuvelmans11 books
- Ernst Probst8 books
- Loren Coleman8 books
- Seanan McGuire7 in this tradition9 books
- Brad Steiger5 in this tradition18 books
- Chad Arment5 books
- Christian Oeser5 books
- Joel Levy4 in this tradition9 books
- Frank Edwards4 in this tradition8 books
- Michael Newton4 in this tradition8 books
- Hartwig Hausdorf4 in this tradition7 books
- Michael Shermer4 in this tradition6 books
665 books
- Read free
The wonders of the world
John Loraine Abbott
Date unknown
- Read free
Timbuctoo the mysterious
Félix Dubois, Diana White
Date unknown
- Read free
Der Zusammenhang der Seele mit der Giesterwelt :
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature, Stilling W
1834German
- Read free
The Lake Gun
James Fenimore Cooper
Date unknown
- Read free
The haunter of the dark
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Date unknown
Anthropology and Cryptozoology
Samantha Hurn
2016
- Read free
Le livre des singularités
Gabriel Peignot
Date unknownFrench
- Read free
漢武帝別國洞冥記
Xian Guo
Date unknownChinese
- Read free
Dragons: A Revisionist Natural History — Toward the Formal Recognition of Draconis as a Suppressed Biological Taxon
Sebastian E. R. Blessen
2026
Cryptozoology
Johan Egerkrans
2026
Der Tatzelwurm
Ulrich Magin
2020German
- Read free
幽明錄
Yiqing Liu, Wang Genlin
Date unknownChinese
Cryptozoology
Raechell Smith, Mark Bessire, Loren Coleman, Bates College Museum of Art, Mark H. C. Bessire
2006
Searching for sasquatch
Brian Regal
2011
A book of folk-lore
Sabine Baring-Gould
1970
The enigma of Loch Ness
Henry H. Bauer
1986
- Read free
Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
Frank R Stockton
Date unknown
Fabulous Creatures and Other Magical Beings
Joel Levy
2004
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge
Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt
2004
Round in circles
Jim Schnabel
1993
Borderlands
Mike Dash
1997
Time Storms
Jenny Randles
2001
Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were
Robert Ingpen
1998
Kryptozoologi
Geir Stian Ulstein
2026Norwegian (Bokmål)