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
The extraordinary book of lists
Editors of Publications International Ltd
2007
The giant book of mysterious and bizarre people
Thomas Slemen
2005
The goblin universe
F. W. Holiday
1986
The great orm of Loch Ness
F. W. Holiday
1968
The indispensable book of useless information
Don Voorhees
2011
The little book of the paranormal
Rupert Matthews
2010
The locals
Thom Powell
2003
The loch
Steve Alten
2005
The mammoth encyclopedia of the unsolved
Colin Wilson
2000
The monster of the Madidi
Simon Chapman
2002
The monsters of Loch Ness
Roy P. Mackal
1976
The mystery chronicles
Joe Nickell
2004
The secret history of Bigfoot
John O'Connor
2024
The secret museum
Molly Oldfield
2013
The unidentified
Colin Dickey
2020
The utterly, completely, and totally useless fact-o-pedia
Charlotte Lowe
2009
There's Treasure Inside
Jon Collins-Black
2024
Things you thought you knew
Joseph Rosenbloom
2002
Tom Slick
Loren Coleman
2002
UFOs, chemtrails, and aliens
Donald R. Prothero
2017
Ultimate Unauthorized Nintendo Game Strategies
Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett
1989
Uncle John's fifth bathroom reader
Bathroom Readers' Institute
1992
Unexplained!
Jerome Clark
1993
Usefully useless
M. P. Hanks
2011