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
Remarkable curiosities
H. H. Brackenridge
1794
Some remarks on the great and unusual darkness, that appeared on Friday, May 19, 1780
in the state of the Massachusetts-Bay Farmer
1780
Spelunking through hell
Seanan McGuire
2022
Still in search of prehistoric survivors
Karl P. N. Shuker
2017
Surprizing miracles of nature and art ...
R. B
1729
Thaumatographia naturalis
Joannes Jonstonus
1632
The Columbian Museum, at the head of the Mall, Boston
Columbian Museum
1799
The Loch Ness animal
A. C. Oudemans
1934
The New wonderful magazine
Joan D'Arc
1849
The Spanish Mandeuile of miracles, or, The garden of curious flowers
Antonio de Torquemada
1600
The Spanish Mandeuile of myracles, or, The garden of curious flowers
Antonio de Torquemada
1618
The autobiography of Miss Ann E. Leak, born without arms
Ann Eliza Leak
1871
The book for every day
James Mason
1878
The book of oddities
William Andrews
1882
The curious traveller
James Hulett, Godfrey Smith
1742
The extraordinary adventures and discoveries of several famous men
R. B
1683
The feejee mermaid and other essays in natural and unnatural history
Jan Bondeson
1999
The following is copied from the journal kept by Mr. Jacob M. Berriman, during his tour to the westward of Fort Recovery
Jacob M. Berriman
1799
The ghost with trembling wings
Scott Weidensaul
2002
The kraken and the colossal octopus
Bernard Heuvelmans
2003
The magic zoo
Peter Costello
1979
The signs of the times: or Some expositions and remarks on sundry texts of Scripture, relative to the remarkable phenomenon, or dark-day, which appeared in New-England on the nineteenth of May, 1780
Samuel Gatchel
1781
The surprizing miracles of nature and art
R. B
1685
The terrific register, or, Record of crimes, judgments, providences, and calamities
Thomas Richardson
1825