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
Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermal Index
Tomer Sapir
2018
Atlas des mystères
Sarah Sheppard, Alain Gnaedig, Helena Grönlund
2022French
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
Jules Verne, Alphonse de Neuville, Jean-Philippe Chabot
1994French
The United States of cryptids
J. W. Ocker
2022
Hon na vodní příšery
Vojtěch Sláma
2002Czech
Megalodon
Jan A Novák
2011Czech
Obliterated
Chris Mentillo
2015
Po stezkách oblud
Vojtěch Sláma
2003Czech
Po záhadných stopách
Jaroslav Mareš
1994Czech
Tales of the Sasquatch
William Marks
1973
Záhadná monstra
Vojtěch Sláma
2011Czech
Záhady z říše zvířat
Tadeusz Oszubski
2006Czech
100 most dangerous things on the planet
Anna Claybourne
2008
Amazing true stories
Don L. Wulffson
1991
Beastly tales
Malcolm Yorke
1998
Beyond Belief
Brad Steiger
1992
Bigfoot (Unsolved Mysteries
Greg Cox
2001
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and Unexplained Creatures
Matt Bougie
2017
Bájné bytosti a další tvorové ze světa fantazie
2009Czech
Cryptids Island
Max Brallier
2013
Dr Doodle and the Loch Ness monster
Louise M. Hurd
2005
El chupacabra the bloodsucker and other legendary creatures of Latin America
Craig Boutland
2019
Emma Tupper's diary
Peter Dickinson
1971
Encyclopedia Browns Third Record Book of Weird and Wonderful Facts
Donald J. Sobol
1985