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
Stink it up!
Megan McDonald
2013
Strange animals
Rupert Matthews
2010
Tales of the Cryptids
Kelly Milner Halls
2006
Tentacles
Roland Smith
2009
The Boggart Fights Back
Susan Cooper
2018
The Loch
Marlaine Maddux
2000
The Loch Ness Monster
Frances Nagle
2016
The Loch Ness Monster (The Unexplained)
Terri Sievert
2004
The Loch Ness Monster (Unsolved Mysteries (Rosen Publishing Group).)
Martin Delrio
2001
The Loch Ness monster
Ian Thorne
1978
The Loch Ness monster
Bradley Steffens
1995
The Loch Ness monster
Elwood D. Baumann
1972
The Loch Ness monster
Jacqueline Laks Gorman
2002
The Loch Ness monster
Robert D. San Souci
1989
The Mummy's curse
Daniel Cohen
1994
The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster (Can Science Solve)
Holly Wallace
2006
The Water Horse
Dick King-Smith, David Parkins, Melissa A. Manwill, Nathaniel Parker
1992
The kelpie's pearls
Mollie Hunter
1964
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster
Thomas Kingsley Troupe
2012
The luck of the Loch Ness monster
Alice Flaherty
2007
The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster
Jeanne Bendick
1976
Tutta colpa di un caffè con panna
Elisabetta Dami
2000
Unexplained monsters and cryptids
Holly Lynn Anderson
2015
Weird but true
National Geographic
2010