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
Bazyliszek
Graham Masterton
2009Polish
Bernard Heuvelmans
Michel Ballot
2024French
Bigfoot
Mireille Thibault
2018French
Bizarre mais vrai !
Catherine Le Troquier, Nicole Claveloux
1993French
Blob et espèces étonnantes
Manon Ternois
2023French
Centvria variarvm qvæstionvm, oder, Ein [-vierte] hundert Fragen von allerley Materien und Sachen
Martin Zeiller
1660German
Chuchunaa. Der sibirische Affenmensch
Ernst Probst
2013German
Collectanea curiosa, theologica & historica, oder, Eine nützliche Sammlung satyrischer Straff-Schrifften
Daniel Hartnack
1735German
Criptidi della Puglia
Marco Lamacchia
2025Italian
Cryptozoologie
Mireille Thibault
2023French
Curieuse Garten-Gespräche, oder, Ein Discours etlicher guter Freunde von unterschiedenen Curiositaeten
A. R
1700German
Curiosa theologica, vel, Diversa diversorum
Daniel Hartnack
1690German
Curiosités animales
Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu
2010French
Czy prehistoryczne zwierzęta przetrwały?
Karl P. N Shuker
2018Polish
Description des moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde
P. C
1821
Dictionnaire des merveilles et curiosités de la nature et de l'art ...
Adolphe Chesnel de la Charbouclais
1853French
Dos jardin do Korassà às profundezas do Loch Ness
Jorge O'Grady de Paiva
1973Portuguese
E.G. Happelii Gröste Denckwürdigkeiten der Welt, oder, So-genannte relationes curiosae
Eberhard Werner Happel
1683German
Entwurff einer historischen Architectur in Abbildung
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
1721French
Etranges bizarreries de la nature
Béatrice Fontanel
2010French
Fortunius Licetus de monstris
Fortunio Liceti
1665Latin
Forêt de Chizé, attention puma !
Frédéric Dumerchat, Philippe Véniel
2005French
Frederici Nauseae Blancicampiani, eximii Ll. Doctris, inclytae ecclesiae Moguntinae à sacris concionibus eminentiss. Libri mirabilium septem
Friedrich Nausea
1532Latin
Godzilla i Kong
Robert Place Napton, Nikita Kannekanti, Barnaby Legg, Christian Ward, Tyler Smith, Jimmy Betancourt, Richard Starkings
2024Polish