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
Guinness World Records 2003
Guinness World Records
2002
Guinness world records 2001
Tim Footman
2000
Half-off ragnarok
Seanan McGuire
2014
Hunted
Brandon Tolin
2020
In Me Own Words
Graham Roumieu
2003
In search of lake monsters
Peter Costello
1974
Interesting Facts for Curious Minds
Jordan Moore
2022
Is the Loch Ness Monster Real?
Allison Lassieur
2016
Just a bunch of crazy ideas
Pardu S. Ponnapalli
2011
Loch Ness
Adrian Shine
2006
Loch Ness monster
Tim Dinsdale
1961
MONSTER! - THE A-Z OF ZOOFORM PHENOMENA
Neil Arnold
2007
Magic, myths and monsters
Joel Levy
2006
Mind = Blown
Matthew Santoro
2016
Mind-bending curiosities & facts
Any Puzzle Media
2015
Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce
2020
Mokele-Mbembe
William J. Gibbons
2010
Monster
Jeffrey Konvitz
1982
Mysteries of mind, space & time
Anon
1992
Mysteries of the unexplained
Richard Marshall, Carroll C. Calkins
1982
Mysteries, monsters, and untold secrets
George Laycock
1978
Mysterious America
Loren Coleman
1983
Mysterious creatures
Time-Life Books
1988
Mystery in Acambaro
Charles H. Hapgood
2000