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
Are you sh*tting me?
Cary McNeal
2014
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
Simon Welfare, John Fairley
1980
Arthur C. Clarke's mysteries
John Fairley
1998
At the water's edge
Sara Gruen
2015
Believe it or not!
Robert Le Roy Ripley
1929
Bigfoot!
Loren Coleman
2003
Boss Snakes
Chad Arment
2008
Bunyips & bigfoots
Malcolm Smith
1996
Cathexis reader
Jacqui Lee Schiff
1975
Charles Berlitz's world of strange phenomena
Charles Berlitz
1990
Chronicles of the strange and uncanny in Florida
Greg Jenkins
2010
Chuck's Bigfoot Tinglers - Volume 4
Chuck Tingle
2015
Cryptozoologicon
John Conway, C.M. Kösemen, Darren Naish
2013
Cults, conspiracies, and secret societies
Arthur Goldwag
2009
Does Champ Exist?
Gary S. Mangiacopra, Dwight G. Smith
2007
Encounters
Matt Hoyle
2007
Encyclopaedia of the Loch Ness Monster
Paul Harrison
2002
Everything is under control
Robert Anton Wilson
1998
From flying toads to snakes with wings : from the pages of Fate magazine
Karl Shuker
1997
From the mundane to the magnificent
Vera Stanley Alder
1979
Glimpses of Other Realities
Linda Moulton Howe
1993
Gory Details
Erika Engelhaupt
2020
Guiness World Records 2004
Guinness World Records
2003
Guinness 1985 book of world records
Norris Dewar McWhirter
1985