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
La bête du Gévaudan, enfin démasquée?
Pascal Cazottes
2004French
Drôles de bêtes
Catherine Vadon
2012French
Créatures
Renaud Jesionek
2025French
Das große Buch der Ungeheuer
Cryptozoological Society, Martin Knowelden, Joel Levy
2000
Sólo para gigantes
Gabi Martínez
2011Spanish
Kryptydy
Eleanor Hawken
2026Polish
Tenali Raman
Kavitha Madana
2006
True Stories of Real-Life Monsters
Nicholas Redfern
2014
Weird But True 5 300 Outrageous Facts
National Geographic
2013
Weird But True 6!
National Geographic Kids
2014
- Read free
Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas ranger and hunter
John John Crittenden Duval
1947
Donald and the Loch Ness monster
1990
The New Krofft Supershow
Mary A. Mintzer
1978
Nessie
Ernst Probst
2002German
Rätselhafte & phantastische Formen des Lebens
Roland M. Horn
2002German
Bestiaire imaginaire
Julie Delfour
2013French
L' homme de Néanderthal est toujours vivant
Bernard Heuvelmans, Boris Fëdorovič Poršnev, Pornev Boris F, Jean-Jacques Barloy
1974French
- Read free
Les hominidés non identifiés des forêts d'Afrique
Jacqueline Roumeguère-Eberhardt
1990French
Monsters of New Jersey
Loren Coleman, Bruce G. Hallenbeck
2010
Sur la piste des animaux énigmatiques
2017French
À la recherche du Mokélé-Mbembé
Michel Ballot, Comptoir général
2014French
Animali misteriosi
Franco Tassi
2019Italian
Baiser d'ailes bleues
Nicole Viloteau
2009French
Bernard Heuvelmans, un rebelle de la science
Jean-Jacques Barloy
2007French