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
- Read free
The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities
1825
The encyclopaedia of the Loch Ness monster
Paul Harrison
1999
A Book of facts and sentiments
Emelia Steele Seamans
1874
A View of human nature: or, Select histories
Samuel Birt
1750
A brief collection of many rare secrets
La Fountaine
1650
A brief history of William Abernethy
James Abernethy
1862
A catalogue of many natural rarities ..
Robert Hubert
1664
A catalogue of the rarities to be seen at Don Saltero's coffee house in Chelsea
James Salter, Don Saltero
1770
A dictionary of the most uncommon wonders of the works of art and nature
James Hardie
1819
A living dinosaur?
Roy P. Mackal
1987
A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets
La Fountaine
1649
A scriptural account of the uncommon darkness that happened on Friday May 19th, 1780
John Kennedy
1780
A sketch of the life of Barney Nelson, the armless phenomenon
Dale Armstrong
1880
A strange and lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northamptonshire, 1642
John Cleric Locke
1642
A world of wonders
Henri II Estienne, William Shakespeare, Richard Carew, Richard Sir Carew, Richard Field, John Norton, Edward Viles
1607
All creatures weird and dangerous
Timm Otterson, ProQuest
2022
An account of Cadborosaurus willsi, new genus, new species
E. L. Bousfield
1995
An hymn, composed by Elder Peleg Burroughs, the 20th of the fifth month, 1780
Peleg Burroughs
1845
At Mr. Croomes, at the signe of the shooe and, slap neer the hospital-gate in West-Smithfield, is to be seen the wonder of nature ..
Croomes Mr
1677
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
Bowen's Columbian Museum at the head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day: and elegantly illuminated every Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday evening
Columbian Museum
1798
Britannia Baconia
Joshua Childrey
1661