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
A nutshell of knowledge
A. L. O. E
1869
A scriptural account of the uncommon darkness that happened on Friday May 19th, 1780.
1780
A strange and miraculous accident happened in the cittie of Purmerent, on New-yeeres euen last past 1599
1599
A true and perfect relation of a monstrous and prodigous whale lately cast on shore at rings-end near Dublin in Ireland
1679
A true relation of the wonderful apparition of a cross in the moon
1688
A true reporte of three straunge and wonderful accidents, lately hapened at Pernaw, a cittie in Lifflande
1603
Anthony Paint[er] the blaspheming caryar
1614
Auto-biography of Barnum
P. T. Barnum
1889
Curiosities of history, with new lights
John Timbs
1857
Encyclopédiana, ou, l'abeille de Montmartre
1801
Entertaining knowledge
William Measom
1865
Extracts literary, moral, and religious
Moses Titcomb Harris
1827
Mankind displayed: or, The history of the little vvorld
1690
Miraculum signum cœleste: A discourse of those miraculous prodigies, that have been seen since the birth of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With a chronological note of such eminent accidents, which have immediatly ensued the appearance of every of them
1658
Missionary cabinet
Helen C Knight
1847
Nevves from Babylon
1637
P.T. Barnum's circus, museum, and menagerie
P. T. Barnum
1888
Parley's panorama, or, Curiosities of nature and art, history and biography
1861
Peter Parley's book of curiosities
Samuel G. Goodrich
1832
Peter Parley's book of curiosities, natural and artificial
Samuel G. Goodrich
1832
Peter Parley's wonders of art, ancient and modern
Peter Parley
1842
Remarkable curiosities.
1794
Scenes of wonder in many lands
Thomas Nelson & Sons
1868
Strange and wonderful news from Bull-and-Mouth-Street:, or, A faithful and true account how a child of five days old was heard to speak several words distinctly, and with a loud and manly voice
1678