Tradition 21 of 35
Cryptozoology and Forteana
Cryptids, Bigfoot, lake monsters, anomalous animals, Fortean collections, and unexplained phenomena.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,204
- Earliest
- 1101
- to 2026
- Read free
- 42%
- 504 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,095
- Metadata match10
- Query match99
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
- Curiosities and wonders470
- Cryptozoology134
- Early works to 180095
- Loch Ness monster95
- Monsters85
- Cryptozoologie80
- KRYPTOZOOLOGIE73
- Juvenile literature70
- Dragons61
- History51
- Early works to 190047
- Folklore39
- Cavalerie38
- Fiction37
- Natural history37
- Miscellanea32
- Juvenile fiction26
- Mythical Animals26
- Science26
- Sasquatch25
- Animals22
- Sea monsters20
- Monsters, juvenile literature19
- Zoology19
Top languages
- English558 · 46%
- French271 · 23%
- German153 · 13%
- Latin74 · 6%
- NOT32 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- France158 in this tradition164 books
- Louis XV125 in this tradition126 books
- Louis XVI28 books
- Bernard Heuvelmans11 books
- Ernst Probst8 books
- Loren Coleman8 books
- R. B7 in this tradition14 books
- Seanan McGuire7 in this tradition10 books
- Brad Steiger5 in this tradition19 books
- Louis XIV5 in this tradition7 books
- Pierre Boaistuau5 in this tradition6 books
- Chad Arment5 books
1,204 books
- Read free
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
1897
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Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Institoris, Jakob Sprenger, Heinrich Kramer
1486Latin
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Wild talents
Charles Fort
1932
- Read free
The history of spiritualism
Arthur Conan Doyle
1926
- Read free
Mythical monsters
Charles Gould
1886
- Read free
New Lands
Charles Fort, Booth Tarkington
1923
- Read free
Curiosities of Olden Times
Sabine Baring-Gould
1869
- Read free
Museum britannicum; or, A display in thirty two plates
Jan van Rymsdyk, Andreas van Rymsdyk
1791
Abominable science!
Daniel Loxton, Donald R. Prothero, Daniel, Donald R, Michael Shermer
2013
Mysterious Creatures
George M. Eberhart, George M. Eberhαrt
2002
Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées
Bernard Heuvelmans
1955
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Tombouctou la mystérieuse
Félix Dubois
1896French
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The wonders of the universe
O. M. Dunham, Charles Barnard
1885
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Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, grecz & latins, sacrez & prophanes
Pierre Boaistuau, Robert Le Mangnier, Jean Longis
1561French
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Catalogus uariorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inseruientium quae in museo suo breui luci exponendo possidet
Abraham Vater, former owner. DSI Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin, publisher Vidua Gerdesia
1726Latin
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Monatliche Unterredungen einiger guten Freunde von allerhand Büchern und andern annemlichen Geschichten
Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel, Unknown
1690German
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Ouresiphoítes Helveticus, sive itinera per Helvetiæ alpinas regiones facta annis MDCCII. MDCCIII. MDCCIV. MDCCV. MDCCVI. MDCCVII. MDCCIX. MDCCX. MDCCCXI
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
1723Latin
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De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis libri duo
Fortunio Liceti, Paolo Frambotto, Varisco Varisco
1634Latin
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Franc. Ern. Bruckmanni, med. doct. acad. caesar. nat. cur. et soc., reg. Pruss. Scient. Colleg. et practic. Wolffenb. Epistola itineraria I-[XII] ...
Franz Ernst Brückmann
1728German
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The Glyptic; or, Musee phusee glyptic
John William Jarvis, John William. [from old catalog] Jarvis
1875
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Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Religious Tract Society
1850
- Read free
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters
[author not identified]
1802
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The secrets of Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus
1691
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The olden time series
Henry M. Brooks, Henry Henry Mason Brooks
1886