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
History of Zip, the original "What is it?"
New York Popular Publishing Co
1883
History of the Phantom Lady
Mary F. Southwick, New York Popular Publishing Co
1881
How to think about weird things
Theodore Schick, Lewis Vaughn
2008
Illustrated history of wild animals and other curiosities contained in P.T. Barnum's new and greatest show on earth, museum, menagerie, polytechnic institute, and international zoological garden
S. S. Smith
1878
It cannot rain but it pours, or, London strow'd with rarities
John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift
1726
It cannot rain but it pours, or, The first part of London strow'd with rarities
John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, James Comerford
1726
Letter to the editor on the relation between cerebral development and the tendency to particular pursuits, and on the heads of botanists
Hewett Cottrell Watson
1834
Life of the celebrated bearded lady, Madame Clofullia, and her infant Esau
Josephine Boisdechene Clofullia Ghio
1856
Light gives light, to light discover--"Ad infinitum." St. Louis, (Missouri Territory,) North America, April 10, A.D. 1818
John Cleves Symmes
1818
Loch Ness investigation
David James
1968
Loch Ness monster
William Akins
1977
Looking for the Mokele-Mbembe
Michel Ballot
2015
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Thomas O. Summers
1857
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Daniel P. Kidder
1848
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena. Remarkable delusions, or, Illustrations of popular errors
Religious Tract Society
1848
Memorable accidents and remarkable transactions
T. Léonard, R. B
1795
Memorable accidents and unheard-of transactions
T Léonard
1779
Memorable accidents and unheard-of transactions
T. Le onard
1779
Messieurs Edes', By inserting the following address, you will oblige a constant reader
Military countryman
1780
Miracles of art and nature
R. B
1683
Monument Maker
David Keenan, ProQuest
2023
Museum & wax-work, at the Exchange, New-York
American Museum, N.Y American Museum (New York
1793
Museum, head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day, and Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings. With music on a large concert organ
Columbian Museum
1799
Paranormal Sweden?
Cristoffer Tidelius
2024