| Author |
Short Story
Title |
Novel or Collection
or Magazine Title |
Year |
Mentioned by |
Story type |
Language
of origin |
Language
of document |
| W.L. Alden |
A Darwinian Schooner |
Pall Mall Magazine 1(4): 543-552. |
1893 |
Research |
Advanced apes mutiny on ship |
English |
English |
| Anonymous |
|
Crusoe Graves; or,
The Surprising Adventures of an Only Son |
1820 |
My Research |
Teenager shipwrecked on island |
English |
English |
| Anonymous (as His Royal Highness Mammoth Martinet) |
|
The Gorilla Origin
of Man: or, the Darwin Theory of Development Confirmed from Recent Travels
in the New World called Myn-me-ae-nia, or Gossipland |
1871 |
Angenot & Khouri, 1981 |
Hollow Earth simian society |
English |
English |
| Anonymous |
|
The History of
Autonous |
1736 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
English |
English |
| Anonymous |
. |
Joe,
the Jungle Boy
Being
the Adventures of a Boy Who
Was
Carried
Off
by Gorillas
|
1903 |
Research |
Boy who lived among gorillas |
English |
English |
| Anonymous |
|
The Life and Surprising
Adventures of Don Antonio de Trezzanio |
1761 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
English |
English |
| Anonymous |
Mems from Monkey-Land |
Punch, Or the London Charivari 101(Nov. 21): 25-26 |
1891 |
Research |
Parody of Garner's studies |
English |
English |
| Anonymous |
Second and Third
Dreams |
Les songes du Chevalier de la Marmotte |
orig. 1745
Georges Dodds, transl., 2006 |
Research on gallica |
Simian society |
French |
English |
| Anonymous |
The Tale of Dulcarnain
Abumaratsid |
Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos. 47: 241-269. |
orig. 16th cent.
1926 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
Arabic/Spanish |
Spanish |
| R.M. Ballantine |
|
The Gorilla Hunters |
1862 |
Kasson, 2001
Taliaferro, 1999 |
African settings, gorillas |
English |
English |
| Sabine Baring-Gould |
|
Valentine and Orson |
1895 |
Originally published in Lyon in 1479 |
A wild-man named raised from a baby by a she-bear |
French |
English |
| David W. Belisle |
"Capture of a Wild Man" |
The American Family
Robinson |
1854 |
Personal Research |
A wild-living white man is captured in the American west. |
English |
English |
| Élie Berthet |
|
The Wild Man of
the Woods |
orig. 1865
anon. transl., 1968 |
Research |
Human child living with orang-outangs |
French |
English |
| Cyrus Townsend Brady |
|
The Island of Regeneration,
A Story of What Ought to Be |
Year |
Stableford |
Feral adult, Robinsonade |
English |
English |
| Arthur Montagu Brookfield (as Anon.) |
|
Simiocracy; a
Fragment from Future History |
1884 |
Research |
Simian society takes over England |
English |
English |
| J.W. Buel |
|
The Heroes of the Dark
Continent [...] (text only) |
1890 |
Atamian, 1997 |
African settings |
English |
English |
| Frank Constable Challice |
|
The Curse of Intellect |
1895 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
English |
English |
| E.W. Cole |
Discovery of a Race
of Human Beings with Tails |
Melbourne Herald |
1873/1875 |
Research |
Simian society, hoax |
English |
English |
| James Fenimore Cooper |
|
The Monikins |
Year |
Research |
Simian society |
English |
English |
| Henry Curwen (as Anon.) |
Zit and Xoe: Their
Early Experiences. |
Blackwood’s Magazine 139(846): 457-478, 139(847): 612-634 |
1886 |
Angenot & Khouri, 1981 |
Advanced human-like apes |
English |
English |
| C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne |
|
The New Eden |
1892 |
Research |
Feral infants |
English |
English |
| John Davidson |
|
A Full and True
Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender [...] |
1895 |
Research |
Humorous Darwinist extremism, missing link |
English |
English |
| Pieter de la Court |
A Frenchman and
a Dutchman in the Kingdom of Apes. |
Fables Moral and Political, with Large Explications |
1703 |
Research on ECCO |
Simian society |
English |
English |
| John de Morgan |
In Unknown Worlds;
or, Searching for the Missing Link |
Brave and Bold Weekly No. 303 |
Year |
Research |
Hunt for missing link |
English |
English |
| Ernest Dodillon |
|
Hemo |
orig. 1886
Georges Dodds, transl. 2005 |
Messac, 1935; Stead, 2004; Angenot and Khouri, 1981 |
Advanced ape in human society, miscegenation |
French |
English |
| François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil |
|
Ambrose and Eleanor;
or the Adventures of Two Children, Deserted on an Uninhabited Island |
French orig. Lolotte et Fanfan, 1788
Lucy Peacock, transl., 1796 |
Personal research |
Infant boy and girl survive on desert island |
French |
English |
| William Tillinghast Eldridge |
"The Monkey Man" |
The All Story Magazine
18: 1-15,232-247, 438-451, 648-659 |
1910 |
Taliaferro, 1999; Nesteby, 1980 |
Couple shipwrecked on island have to deal with feral human |
English |
English |
| Ernest Favenc |
"A Haunt of the
Jinkarras." |
Tales of the Austral Tropics. |
1894 |
Personal Research |
Underground race of apes |
English |
English |
| Gustave Flaubert |
"Quidquid volueris"
Starts page 204 |
Śuvres Complètes |
1837 |
Messac, 1935 |
Ape in society, loves human woman |
French |
French |
| Paul DuChaillu |
|
Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa |
Year |
Atamian, 1997
Kasson, 2001 |
Exploration account, describes gorillas |
English |
English |
| Sir Percy Fitzgerald |
|
Jock of the Bushveld |
1907 |
Atamian, 1997 |
Hunting in Africa, tigers in Africa |
English |
English |
| J. Fogerty |
|
Mr. Jocko |
1891 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
English |
English |
| Gustavus Frankenstein |
The Little Boy
and the Elephant |
St. Nicholas. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folk |
1900 |
. |
Feral or Isolated Humans - Children |
English |
English |
| Mr. Gabriel and Rochefort |
|
Jocko; or, The Monkey
from Brazil |
1825 |
Leblanc, 1987 |
Ape amongst humans, play |
French |
English |
| Richard Lynch Garner |
|
Apes and Monkeys:
Their Life and Language |
1900 |
Research |
Scientific study of ape language |
English |
English |
Clarence Gordon
as 'Vieux Moustache' |
Rough's Story
of the Old Man and the Ape. |
The Riverside Magazine for Young People. An Illustrated Monthly.
1(11): 520-525. |
1867 |
Research on 19th century magazine database |
Ape amongst humans |
English |
English |
| Léon Gozlan |
|
Monkey Island |
orig. 1856
Charles S. Cheltnam, transl., 1888 |
Stableford |
Human amongst apes |
French |
English |
| Baltasar Gracián y Morales |
|
The Critick |
orig. 1651-57
Paul Rycault, transl. 1681 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
Spanish |
English |
| Nicolao Granucci |
Bella Favola dello
Istinto Naturale |
La piacevol notte, et lieto giorno, opera morale |
1574 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
Italian |
Italian |
| William Murray Graydon |
The Jungle Boy |
Union Jack, 4(85), New series, 27 May |
1905 |
Research |
Feral child leads panthers |
English |
English |
| William Murray Graydon |
. |
Jungle Trappers:
A Tale of the Indian
Jungle |
1905 |
Research |
Wild animal trappers of India |
English |
English |
| William Murray Graydon |
The White King of
Africa |
Good News: Best Stories from Every Quarter |
1901 (book) |
Research |
Lost race in Africa |
English |
English |
John Griffiths
Henri Soustras, 'transl.' |
Péters |
Musée des Familles 1:197-200 |
1834 |
Leblanc, 1987 |
Plagiarism of C.M. Pougens' Jocko (1824) |
French |
French |
| Carl Grunert |
Der
Schreibende Affe |
Reclams Universum, 27: 349-352,371-373. |
1911 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
German |
German |
| H. Rider Haggard |
|
Allan's Wife |
1889 |
'Nealus', alt.pulp - gmail groups |
Woman raised by baboons comes to live amongst humans |
English |
English |
| H. Rider Haggard |
|
Nada the Lily |
1892 |
Personal research |
Old native man hunts with the wolves |
English |
English |
| Leo d'Hampol |
The Missing Link |
Nos Loisirs No. 44, 1411-1415 |
1910 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
French |
English |
| William Hauff |
The Young Englishman |
Tales of the Caravan |
orig. 1826
Edward L. Stowell, transl., 1882 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
German |
English |
| Max Haushofer |
Pithekanthropos |
An des Daseins Grenzen. Geschichten und Phantasien |
orig. 1908 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
German |
German |
| Mrs. [Barbara] Hofland |
|
The Young Crusoe |
1828 |
Personal Research |
Young boy survives on a tropical island |
English |
English |
| Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail |
|
The History of Hayy
ibn Yaqzân |
original 12 cent.
Simon Ockley transl. 1708 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
Arabic |
English |
| Rudyard Kipling |
|
The Jungle Book
The Second Jungle
Book |
1894
1895 |
Altrocchi, 1944
many others |
Feral child |
English |
English |
| John Kirkby |
|
The Capacity and
Extent of Human Understanding Exemplified in the Extraordinary Case of
Automathes |
1745 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral infant |
English |
English |
| Don Mark Lemon |
The Gorilla |
The All-Story Magazine 3(2) |
1905 |
H.P. Lovecraft |
Simian family curse |
English |
English |
| Jules Lermina |
To-Ho the Goldslayer |
Journal des Voyages |
orig. 1905
Georges Dodds, transl., 2005 |
Marc Madourand |
Advanced ape society |
French |
Italian |
| Gaston Leroux |
|
Balaoo |
orig. 1911
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, transl. 1913 |
Research |
Ape in human society |
French |
English |
| Grégoire Le Roy |
Brother Levrai's
Strange Adventure |
Joe Trimborn |
orig. 1913
Georges Dodds transl. 2005 |
Research |
Missing link discovered |
French |
English |
| Peter Longueville |
|
The Hermit: Or, the
Unparalled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll [...] |
1727 |
Research |
Robinsonade, monkey Friday |
English |
English |
Lieut. Lionel Lounsberry
pseud. of Henry Harrison Lewis |
The Treasure of the
Golden Crater |
Good News: Best Stories from Every Quarter, 6(144-155) |
1893 |
Research |
Race of advanced apes which sacrifice humans to their deity |
English |
English |
| Leopold Lugones |
Yzur |
Fuerzas extrañas |
orig. 1906
C. Costa & G. Dodds, transl., 2005 |
Research |
Monkey language |
Spanish |
English |
| Mme. Mallès de Beaulieu |
|
The Modern Crusoe.
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of a French Cabin Boy Who was Shipwrecked
on an Uninhabited Island. |
orig. 1818
F.L. transl., 1827 |
Feralchildren.com |
Feral children/Robinsonade |
French |
English |
| W.H. Mallock |
|
The New Paul and Virginia;
or, Positivism on an Island |
Year |
Research |
Robinsonade, Feral adult |
English |
English |
| Capt. Marryat |
|
The Little Savage |
1848-49 |
Altrocchi, 1944 |
Feral child, shipwreck |
English |
English |
| Philip Verrill Mighels |
|
The Crystal Sceptre |
1901 |
Research |
Humans amongst apes |
English |
English |
| J.E. Preston Muddock |
|
The Sunless City |
1905 |
Research |
Hollow Earth simian society |
English |
English |
| Bill Nye |
Personal Experiences
in Monkey Language |
Pall Mall Magazine |
Aug. 1894 |
Research |
Monkey language |
English |
English |
| Arthur James Ogilvy (as A.J.O.) |
|
The Ape-Man |
1913 |
Angenot & Khouri, 1981 |
Human amongst advanced apes |
English |
English |
| Plutarch |
"Romulus" |
Plutarch's Lives |
1817 |
Burroughs mentioned Romulus & Remus myth as an inspiration |
Infants raised by a she-wolf |
Latin |
English |
| Thomas Love Peacock |
|
Melincourt |
1817 |
Nesteby, 1978 |
Ape in human society |
English |
English |
| Antony Pogorelsky |
A Journey in a Stagecoach |
The Double; or, My Evenings in Little Russia. |
orig. 1829
Ruth Sobel transl. 1988 |
Leblanc, 1987 |
Ape mothers human child |
Russian |
English |
Karl Anton Postl
aka
Charles Sealsfield |
Two Nights in Southern
Mexico |
Blackwood's Magazine and
Frontier Life, or, Tales of the Southwestern Border |
1853 |
Ebay posting |
Hunting or
Attacked by apes in Mexico |
German |
English |
| C.M. de Pougens |
|
Jocko, anecdote
détachée des lettres inédites sur l'instinct des animaux. |
orig. 1824, rpt. 1881
Georges Dodds, transl. 2006 |
Leblanc, 1987 |
Human amongst apes |
French |
French |
| Harry Prentice |
|
Captured by apes : or, How Philip Garland became King of Apeland |
1892 |
Lupoff, 1965
Taliaferro, 1999 |
Human amongst apes. |
English |
English |
| Samuel Purchas |
The strange adventures
of Andrew Battell of Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portuguese prisoner to
Angola, who lived there, and in the adjoining regions, near eighteen years. |
Purchas his pilgrimes (2: 970-985.) |
1625 |
Research |
Feral child among monkeys, sailor explores west Africa |
English |
English |
| Frederic Remington |
|
John Ermine of the
Yellowstone
[1896] |
1902 |
Seelye introduction to Penguin ed. of Tarzan |
White boy raised by Indians cannot find his place among 'whites' |
English |
English |
| C.S. Rice |
Katie's Forest Friends |
St. Nicholas. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folk |
1897 |
. |
Feral or Isolated Humans - Children |
English |
English |
| J. Compton Rickett |
|
The Quickening of
Caliban: A Modern Story of Evolution |
1893 |
Angenot & Khouri, 1981 |
Ape in human society |
English |
English |
| Morgan Robertson |
Primordial |
Where Angels Fear to Tread |
1899 |
Stableford |
Feral children |
English |
English |
| Morgan Robertson |
Three Laws and
the Golden Rule |
Three Laws and the Golden Rule |
1898 |
Stableford |
Feral children |
English |
English |
| Albert Robida |
The King of the
Apes |
Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul dans les
5 ou 6 parties du monde et dans tous les pays connus et même inconnus
de M. Jules Verne |
orig. 1879
Brian Stableford transl. 2005 |
Lacassin, 1982
Atamian, 1995 |
Feral infant raised by monkeys |
French |
English |
| Phil Robinson |
The Hunting of the
Soko |
Under the Punkah |
1881 |
Research |
Hunting cryptoanthropoid |
English |
English |
| Marcel Roland |
|
Almost a Man |
orig. 1905
Georges Dodds transl., 2005 |
Messac, 1935 |
Ape in human society |
French |
English |
| Marcel Roland |
The Missing Link |
Journal des Voyages, 2nd ser., No. 909 |
orig. 1914
Georges Dodds, transl., 2005) |
Marc Madourand |
Missing link discovered |
French |
English |
| Sir Ronald Ross |
|
Child of Ocean |
1889 |
Stableford |
Feral child |
English |
English |
| Epes Winthrop Sargent |
Beyond the Banyans |
The All-Story Magazine, Oct. 1909 |
1909 |
Cazedessus |
Ape-man |
English |
English |
| Zaccaria Seriman |
Review and translated
excerpt of Della viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle terre Australi, 4 vols. London,
1772 |
Monthly Review 47: 501-506. |
1772 |
Angenot & Khouri, 1981 |
Review of Simian society novel |
English |
English |
| Sir W.H. Sleeman |
"Wolves Nurturing
Children in their Dens" |
The Zoologist Ser. III, 12: 87-98, 221. |
1888 |
Personal research |
Review of accounts of humans raised by wolves |
English |
English |
| Elton R. Smilie (as Elton Smile) |
|
Investigations and
Experiences of M. Shawtinbach at Saar Soong, Sumatra |
1879 |
Angenot & Khouri, 1981 |
Cult wishes to return to bearing pre-Adamic tail and resultant sinless
state |
English |
English |
Frank Sheridan
pseud. of John DeMorgan |
The Young Marooner;
or, An American Robinson Crusoe |
Brave and Bold No. 314 |
1908 |
Research |
Robinsonade, ape Friday |
English |
English |
| Willy Speyer |
Bobbi the Chimp:
A Crime
Against Humanity |
Simplicissimus |
1909 |
Personal Research |
Ape does not fit into human society |
German |
English |
| H. de Vere Stacpoole |
|
The Blue Lagoon |
1908 |
Stableford |
Feral children |
English |
English |
| Burt L. Standish |
Frank Merriwell
in Gorilla Land; or, The Search for the Missing Link |
Tip Top Library 1(28) |
1896 |
Research |
Hunting missing link in Africa |
English |
English |
| C.A. Stephens |
Was it an 'Indian
Devil?' |
Ballou's Monthly Magazine |
1876 |
Personal research |
A feral/wild man in Maine backcountry |
English |
English |
| George Archie Stockwell |
Wolf-Children |
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine |
1898 |
Personal research |
Reviews evidence of wolf-children |
English |
English |
| Rounsevelle Wildman |
Baboo's Good
Tiger |
The Youth's Companion |
1896 |
Personal Research |
Young boy follows tiger into jungle |
English |
English |
