Tradition 21 of 35
Cryptozoology and Forteana
Cryptids, Bigfoot, lake monsters, anomalous animals, Fortean collections, and unexplained phenomena.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,204
- Earliest
- 1101
- to 2026
- Read free
- 42%
- 504 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,095
- Metadata match10
- Query match99
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
- Curiosities and wonders470
- Cryptozoology134
- Early works to 180095
- Loch Ness monster95
- Monsters85
- Cryptozoologie80
- KRYPTOZOOLOGIE73
- Juvenile literature70
- Dragons61
- History51
- Early works to 190047
- Folklore39
- Cavalerie38
- Fiction37
- Natural history37
- Miscellanea32
- Juvenile fiction26
- Mythical Animals26
- Science26
- Sasquatch25
- Animals22
- Sea monsters20
- Monsters, juvenile literature19
- Zoology19
Top languages
- English558 · 46%
- French271 · 23%
- German153 · 13%
- Latin74 · 6%
- NOT32 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- France158 in this tradition164 books
- Louis XV125 in this tradition126 books
- Louis XVI28 books
- Bernard Heuvelmans11 books
- Ernst Probst8 books
- Loren Coleman8 books
- R. B7 in this tradition14 books
- Seanan McGuire7 in this tradition10 books
- Brad Steiger5 in this tradition19 books
- Louis XIV5 in this tradition7 books
- Pierre Boaistuau5 in this tradition6 books
- Chad Arment5 books
1,204 books
Critical Rationalist Zoology
Alexander Ohnemus
2024
A guide to sky monsters
T. S Mart
2021
L'affaire Hibagon
Grégory Beaussart
2024French
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
Paradoxographoi
Anton Westermann
1839Greek
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