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
Era
On the Dark Day, May nineteenth, 1780.
1810
One of the wonders
1850
Searching for the Loch Ness monster
Jennifer Rivkin
2014
Searching for the Loch Ness monster
Nikki Case
2011
Short, but concise account of Elisabeth, and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent
1808
Terra incognita
2025
The British Apollo
1726
The History of man
1791
The Loch Ness monster
Erin Peabody
2017
The Scrap-book, or, A selection of interesting and authentic anecdotes
1825
The Wonder of nature: or Europe's miracle
1702
The Wonders of the universe, or, Curiosities of nature and art
1827
The Wonders of the universe; or, Curiosities of nature and art
1839
The Wonders of the world
1873
The new wonderful magazine
1849
The wonders of nature and art
1768
The wonders of the universe
1839
The wonders of the universe, or, Curiosities of nature and art
1851
The wonders of the world
1825
Tracking the Loch Ness Monster
Jenna Vale
2018
Unsolved Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster
Terri Sievert
2013
What we know about Waino and Plutano, the Wild Men of Borneo
1880
What we know about Waino and Plutano, the Wild Men of Borneo
1884
Wonderful news from Bristol
1676