Mira Grant Books in Order
Explore Mira Grant books in order by Seanan McGuire, with quick summaries, pen-name background, series guides, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: July 7, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Feed
by Mira Grant
2010
Twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason land the chance of a lifetime by joining a presidential campaign. Chasing the story that could make them famous, they uncover a conspiracy in a world where every infection can turn deadly fast.
Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box
by Mira Grant
2011
A supposedly secure bunker becomes its own kind of trap as the Rising tears the world apart outside. This Newsflesh novella turns survival prep into a pressure cooker.
Countdown
by Mira Grant
2011
Set in 2014, this novella tells the story of how the world tipped into the Rising. It is a grim, fast look at the moment humanity realized the dead were not going to stay dead.
Deadline
by Mira Grant
2011
Shaun Mason is trying to keep going after devastating loss when a CDC researcher arrives with proof the conspiracy is still alive. He hits the road hunting truth in a country where the dead never stopped being useful.
Blackout
by Mira Grant
2012
The investigation that began on the campaign trail has become something far larger and more dangerous. Shaun, Georgia, and the surviving staff of After the End Times have one last chance to expose the truth before it buries them.
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
by Mira Grant
2012
Fans gather in San Diego for a convention just as the Rising stops being rumor and starts becoming reality. It is a brutal, ground-level look at panic, fandom, and survival over five terrible days.
When Will You Rise
by Mira Grant
2012
This short Newsflesh piece captures the fear and uncertainty of the world's collapse into the Rising. It is brief, bleak, and aimed straight at that first terrible question.
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
by Mira Grant
2013
In post-Rising Australia, conservationists protect wildlife even when the wildlife can come back hungry. The novella widens the Newsflesh world while keeping the focus on work, grief, and stubborn duty.
Parasite
by Mira Grant
2013
In a near future where SymboGen tapeworms have nearly wiped out disease, Sal Mitchell is living proof of the technology's promise. Then the parasites start wanting lives of their own.
Symbiont
by Mira Grant
2014
The tapeworm implants that were meant to keep humanity healthy are taking over their hosts, and panic is spreading fast. Sal and her allies need answers before quarantine, violence, and biology close in for good.
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
by Mira Grant
2014
A classroom that feels safe from the Rising learns how fragile safety really is. This short Newsflesh story works by tightening the walls until there is nowhere left to retreat.
Chimera
by Mira Grant
2015
As the outbreak spreads and society breaks down, Sal and her family are trapped between human and parasite futures. The trilogy closes by asking what survival even means after this much change.
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
by Mira Grant
2015
Dr. Abbey is running an underground virology lab in post-Rising America, which would be hard enough without uninvited company. The result is a sharp little Newsflesh thriller with science and nerves on edge.
Rolling in the Deep
by Mira Grant
2015
A ship heads to the Mariana Trench to film a fake documentary about mermaids and finds something very real instead. This novella is all setup, dread, and sudden teeth.
Feedback
by Mira Grant
2016
Set alongside *Feed*, this novel follows another team of reporters chasing the truth during the presidential campaign. It is a fresh entry point into Newsflesh, with the same infected world and a new set of risks.
All the Pretty Little Horses
by Mira Grant
2017
On an isolated ranch after the Rising, a grieving family tries to keep going after losing their son. It is one of Newsflesh's quieter stories, and one of its saddest.
Canto Bight
by Mira Grant
2017
Set in the casino city from The Last Jedi, this Star Wars anthology follows hustlers, workers, and high rollers chasing luck and survival. Rae Carson's contribution centers on Lexo Sooger, a masseur forced to confront his past to save his adopted daughter.
Final Girls
by Mira Grant
2017
A journalist investigates virtual-reality therapy designed to force people through horror-movie scenarios and heal them. Then the outside world proves every bit as dangerous as the simulations.
If It Bleeds
by Tim Lebbon
2017
A Monster Hunter International operative tracks a series of gruesome attacks that should not be possible, uncovering a predator clever enough to hide among humans. The hunt forces him to choose between following orders and doing what is right for the victims.
Into the Drowning Deep
by Mira Grant
2017
A new expedition returns to the Mariana Trench to learn what destroyed the *Atargatis*. Scientists, security, and opportunists all board the ship, but the deep has been waiting for them.
Coming to You Live
by Mira Grant
2018
People say Georgia and Shaun got out and lived happily ever after, but exile is messier than that. This novella drags them back toward the consequences they left behind.
Kingdom of Needle and Bone
by Mira Grant
2018
A fast-moving plague begins with a fever and quickly becomes a global catastrophe. Dr. Isabella Gauley may know a way to fight back, but it is not clean, easy, or likely to leave anyone innocent.
Echo
by Mira Grant
2019
Olivia and her twin sister Viola have barely settled on a colony world when xenomorphs tear their new home apart. Armed with xenobiology knowledge and sheer stubbornness, Olivia has to keep her sister alive through a full *Alien* nightmare.
In the Shadow of Spindrift House
by Mira Grant
2019
Teen investigator Harlowe Upton-Jones and her friends take on one last case at a decaying manor with a murky history. The house keeps its secrets for a reason, and time is running out.
Square³
by Mira Grant
2021
A compact speculative collection built around linked, unsettling ideas. It is the sort of project McGuire uses to get strange on purpose and keep readers slightly off balance.
Unbreakable
by Mira Grant
2023
A dark standalone from the Mira Grant side of McGuire's work, built around survival, pressure, and the point where ordinary endurance starts to crack. Short, bleak, and direct.
Overgrowth
by Mira Grant
2025
Anastasia Miller has said since childhood that she is an alien wearing a human face, and no one has believed her. When a signal from the stars arrives, the world realizes too late that she may have been telling the truth.
Where should I start?
For political zombie thrillers: Feed → Deadline → Blackout
For biotech body horror: Parasite → Symbiont → Chimera
For deep-sea monster horror: Rolling in the Deep → Into the Drowning Deep
For franchise survival horror: Echo
For a newer standalone invasion story: Overgrowth
Author bio
Mira Grant is the open pseudonym Seanan McGuire uses for her horror and science fiction, and the split makes sense as soon as you read the books. Under this name, she writes about outbreaks, monsters, bad science, worse institutions, and ordinary people trying to stay alive when the rules of the world stop behaving.
She was born in Martinez, California, and raised in Northern California.
Long before publication, the interests were already in place. Her official bio talks about a lifelong study of horror movies, horrible viruses, and the inevitable threat of the living dead. It also notes, with the right amount of mischief, that she was voted Most Likely to Summon Something Horrible in the Cornfield while in college. Even the jokes tell you what kind of writer she was going to become.
Her publishing career began in 2009 with Rosemary and Rue under her own name, Seanan McGuire. Not long after, she launched the Mira Grant side of her work, using it as a clear home for darker stories. Feed was the book that really announced the project: a zombie novel that cared as much about politics, journalism, and public health as it did about teeth and panic.
That mix has stuck.
Readers who pick up Feed, Deadline, and Blackout usually come for the zombie premise and stay for the machinery around it. The Newsflesh books imagine a world that has adapted, badly, to catastrophe, and they follow reporters Georgia and Shaun Mason through campaigns, conspiracies, and a culture built on constant risk. Parasite goes smaller and stranger, turning a medical miracle, a genetically engineered tapeworm meant to keep people healthy, into body horror about identity and control.
She is also very good at closed environments and expedition stories. Rolling in the Deep and Into the Drowning Deep take the old mermaid story, strip out the romance, and drop readers into deep-sea terror near the Mariana Trench. Alien: Echo shows how well she can work inside someone else's universe without losing her own interests in biology, adaptation, and survival. More recently, Overgrowth returns to invasion horror through the story of a woman who has been saying for years that she is not as human as everyone thinks.
The facts of her career are sturdy enough without much decoration. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. In 2013 she became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot, and she managed that again in 2022. The three main Newsflesh novels, the novella Countdown, and Parasite were all Hugo nominees as well.
These days, she lives in Washington state and still sounds exactly like the person who wrote those books. Her public bios mention cats, horror movies, comics, creepy dolls, too many books, travel, and auditing virology courses for fun. That combination, half science nerd, half horror gremlin, goes a long way toward explaining why the Mira Grant books feel so specific. They are scary, yes. They are also written by someone who clearly enjoys asking how the nightmare works.
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