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
Kriptidy Buri︠a︡tii i Baĭkala
Boris Mashkovich
2020Russian
Loch Ness
W. P. Hogendoorn
1980Dutch
Monstruos
Eduardo Angulo
2007Spanish
Ormen i Seljordsvatnet
Halvor J. Sandsdalen
1976Norwegian
Paranormal Elementals
Melody Lane
2020
The encyclopaedia of the Loch Ness monster
Paul Harrison
1999
A living dinosaur?
Roy P. Mackal
1987
All creatures weird and dangerous
Timm Otterson, ProQuest
2022
An account of Cadborosaurus willsi, new genus, new species
E. L. Bousfield
1995
Bernard Heuvelmans' Natural history of hidden animals
Bernard Heuvelmans
2016
Bernard Heuvelmans' The natural history of hidden animals
Bernard Heuvelmans, Peter Gwynvay Hopkins
2007
Bigfoot, Yeti and the last Neanderthal
Bryan Sykes
2016
Encounters with flying humanoids
Ken Gerhard
2013
Extraordinary animals worldwide
Karl P. N Shuker
1991
Fauna
Midas Dekkers, Rosario Nos, Joan Perucho, Jorge Ribalta
1989
Greening the paranormal
Jack Hunter
2019
How to think about weird things
Theodore Schick, Lewis Vaughn
2008
Loch Ness investigation
David James
1968
Loch Ness monster
William Akins
1977
Looking for the Mokele-Mbembe
Michel Ballot
2015
Monument Maker
David Keenan, ProQuest
2023
Paranormal Sweden?
Cristoffer Tidelius
2024
Spelunking through hell
Seanan McGuire
2022
Still in search of prehistoric survivors
Karl P. N. Shuker
2017