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
Weird but true!
National Geographic Kids
2015
Weird but true!
National Geographic Society
2011
Where is Wee MacNessie?
Pauline Mackay
2013
Natural History Of Hidden Animals
Heuvelmans
2013
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
A museum of wonders and what the young folks saw there
Frederick Burr Opper
1884
- 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