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
Britannia Baconica
Joshua Childrey
1661
Britannia Baconica: or, The natural rarities of England, Scotland, & Wales
Joshua Childrey
1661
Cabinet of curiosities, natural, artificial, and historical
Samuel G. Goodrich
1822
Catalogue of articles contained in the museum and curiosity shop of the Metropolitan Fair, April 4th, 1864
Metropolitan Fair
1864
Catalogue of arts, relics and curiosities, on exhibition at the Taylor House ...
Brooklyn and Long Island Fair
1864
Catalogue of the exhibition of paintings, curiosities, models, apparatus, and specimens of natural history at the National School Rooms, Sowerby Bridge, for the benefit of the Mechanics' Institution; with the names of the contributors, October 14, 1839
John Crossley
1839
Certaine secrete wonders of nature [photostat]
Pierre Boaistuau
1569
Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and judgement ..
Pierre Boaistuau
1569
Columbian Museum, Milk-Street, Boston--is open every day and evening--Saturday evenings and Sundays excepted ..
Columbian Museum
1804
Columbian Museum, near the Mall, Boston
Columbian Museum
1799
Der von Natur wohlgebildete Felss
Eberhard Werner Happel
1684
Der wunderlich geheilte Messerschlucker
Eberhard Werner Happel
1684
Encounters with flying humanoids
Ken Gerhard
2013
Entwurff einer historischen Architectur
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
1725
Extraordinary animals worldwide
Karl P. N Shuker
1991
Facts from everywhere for everybody
Rochester Brewing Co
1897
Fauna
Midas Dekkers, Rosario Nos, Joan Perucho, Jorge Ribalta
1989
Genteel & surprizing feats of action at Union-Hall, Newburyport
Pedro Cloris
1791
Good newes for Christendome
Ludovico Cortano
1620
Good newes to Christendome
Ludovico Cortano
1620
Greening the paranormal
Jack Hunter
2019
Health notes and curiosities of medical science
T. L. Phipson
1898
Histoire des singularitez naturelles d'Angleterre, d'Escosse, et du Pays de Galles
Joshua Childrey
1667
Histories and observations domestick and foreign, or, A miscellany of historical rarities
William Winstanley
1683