(Editor’s note: Cryptid Quarterly is a feature where I highlight cryptid horror fiction from each quarter of the year, using Amazon Kindle release dates.)

I love Sasquatch and enjoy reading cryptid horror fiction. I even write a column for HorrorAddicts.net called The Bigfoot Files. I also compile The MalevolentDark.com Horror Fiction Top 25 chart, where I painstakingly try to find all the latest horror releases each month and then rank them according to my personally developed points system.

In my monthly search for the Horror Fiction Top 25, I usually find several cryptid horror titles among the releases, so I thought why not use the information I gather about those releases and create a quarterly list for other readers like me who enjoy cryptid horror. And voila, my Cryptid Quarterly feature was born.

So, without further ado, here’s my list of the Top 10 cryptid horror fiction releases from January 1 through March 31, 2024, along with 15 honorable mentions worth checking out. Clicking on the book titles takes you to their Amazon pages.

#1. Misadventures of a Cryptid Hunter by Michael Kelso. A horror-comedy that follows the life of a park ranger reluctantly turned cryptid hunter.

#2. Death Stalks Moon Valley by D.A. Roberts. A collection of seven short stories about legendary creatures set in the Lake of the Ozarks, the banks of the Niangua River, the New Mexico prairie, and beyond.

#3. Operation Yukatan by William Meikle. Book 17 in the S-Squad series sends the squad to a new oil exploration site in the Yucatan to back up an inspection team, but creatures from legend already claim the land.

#4. Cryptid Force Six: The Swamp by Lucas Pederson. Book 4 in the Cryptid Force Six series finds the team in disarray and on the hunt for a doctor in the swamps of Australia where they encounter a legend as old as Australia itself.

#5. Boar War by R. Gualtieri. A prequel story set in the world of Gualtieri’s Bigfoot Hunters is about a failed government experiment spawning an army of mutant hogs that descend upon the unsuspecting residents of a nearby town.

#6. Task Force E: The Reservation by Jason Rubis. A deranged billionaire has created a reservation for cryptids, prompting the U.S. military to seek help from a disbanded group of elite soldiers that specializes in killing cryptids.

#7. Sasquatch 38: Snow Monster by Jeffrey B. Miley. Book 38 in the Sasquatch Adventures series is about a checkpoint town along the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race whose citizens are dying one by one, stalked by a creature of myth, as the dogs and their mushers race toward the town.

#8. Terror Lake by Edward J. McFadden III. A sea monster thriller set on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula about a legendary freak of nature from the depths that appears every six years in search of flesh and blood.

#9. Hunting Bigfoot by Eric S. Brown. Seeking vengeance, a soldier returns to where he witnessed his family slaughtered by a Bigfoot as a boy.

#10. Bog Beast by Brian Gatto. A local hermit asks his cryptozoologist son to bring a team to investigate if a legendary beast is killing livestock, pets, and now humans in their hometown.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Adleparmeun by Kelvin V.A. Allison and Megan Stockton

Snakehead: A Genetics Investigation Team Thriller by Russ Tilton

Apex Apocalypse by John Lee Schneider

Bigfoot Ridge by C.E. Osborn

Croc Attack 2 by Brian Gatto

Sasquatch 37: The Alliance by Jeffrey B. Miley

Faith of Dawn by Kristin Dearborn

Prey of War by Brian Gatto

The Ozark Howler by K.T. Tomb

Death Trap by Ayralea Lander

An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley by Brian Keene

Not of This World: Emulators by Gerry Griffiths

Cry of the Ahool by Gary R. Brand Jr.

Night of the Dogman by Luka T. Jacobs

The Poseidon Pursuit by Kate Seger

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RELATED LINKS

THE BIGFOOT FILES/Chapter Seventy-One: Hunting Bigfoot

THE BIGFOOT FILES/Chapter Seventy: Bigfoot Ridge

THE BIGFOOT FILES/Chapter Sixty-Nine: Bog Beast