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
Tales of Loch Ness
Stuart McHardy
2009
Tasteless lists
Karl Shaw
1998
The Areas of My Expertise
John Hodgman
2005
The Book of Unusual Knowledge
Publications International Ltd
2012
The Bumper Book of Useless Information
Noel Botham
2008
The Great Sea-Serpent
A. C. Oudemans
1892
The Historical Bigfoot
Chad Arment
2006
The Loch Ness monster
Steuart Campbell
1986
The Loch Ness monster
James Carney
2009
The Loch Ness mystery solved
Ronald Binns
1983
The Loch Ness story
Nicholas Witchell
1974
The Murder Hole
Lillian Stewart Carl
2006
The Reader's Digest book of strange stories, amazing facts
Reader's Digest Association
1975
The Star People
Brad Steiger
1981
The Top 10 of Everything
Russell Ash
1994
The Unexplained
Peter Brookesmith
1986
The Van Meter visitor
Chad Lewis
2013
The beasts that hide from man
Karl Shuker
2003
The big book of answers
Kevin Hile
2009
The book of the bizarre
Varla Ventura
2008
The book of weird and unusual trivia
Ltd Publications International
2013
The complete visitor's guide to Loch Ness, Inverness, and the Loch Ness Monster
Andy Owens
2000
The encyclopedia of the strange
Daniel Cohen
1985
The encyclopedia of unsolved mysteries
Colin Wilson
1987