Seanan McGuire Books in Order

Self-exiled changeling October Daye is pulled back into Faerie when an old friend is murdered. Solving the case means facing a world she tried to escape, and enemies who would rather see her dead.

Toby heads to the County of Tamed Lightning to check on a missing fae noblewoman. What looks routine turns into a locked-room nightmare where magic, technology, and murder make a lethal mix.

When Blind Michael starts stealing children Toby loves, she has no choice but to go after him. The rescue sends her deep into one of Faerie's oldest and cruelest nightmares.

Georgia and Shaun Mason, bloggers raised after the Rising, join a presidential campaign and stumble onto the biggest conspiracy of their generation. In post-zombie America, telling the truth can get you killed.

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.

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.

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.

Old enemies return, old lies crack open, and Toby's place in Faerie grows much harder to ignore. She has to untangle truth from manipulation before the people she cares about pay the price.

The heirs to the Undersea are missing, and Toby has three days to stop a war between land and sea. To save them, she will have to go deeper into Faerie than ever before.

Grieving and off balance, Toby takes on the search for a missing girl and finds roads that should have stayed closed. The case turns into a race through dangerous in-between places where children can vanish for good.

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.

Verity Price is a ballroom dancer, former reality TV star, and working cryptozoologist assigned to Manhattan. When local cryptids start disappearing, she is forced into a very personal war with the monster-hunting Covenant.

This October Daye novella follows Rand, the future Tybalt, in the last days before he becomes King of Cats. It works as both backstory and a quietly heartbreaking slice of fae history.

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.

This collection introduces Velveteen, a former child superhero trying to reclaim her life from the corporate machine that made her. It is funny, bitter, and much sharper than the cape-and-spandex setup first suggests.

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.

A short, sharp piece of speculative fiction that leans into unease and identity. McGuire keeps it compact, creepy, and emotionally pointed.

Goblin fruit is poisoning changelings across San Francisco, and Toby cannot look away. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the rot reaches into the very heart of the Mists.

McGuire returns to Oz for a murder mystery that treats the fairy-tale landscape with real danger and modern bite. It is a compact fantasy detour with sharp edges under the wonder.

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.

Fairy tales are real, and when they break into the modern world they do not care who gets hurt. Henry Marchen and the ATI Bureau fight to contain those stories before happily ever after becomes a massacre.

Verity is trying to finish her Manhattan assignment and figure out her future when talk of a Covenant purge turns everything dangerous again. She will need quick feet and better luck than usual.

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.

Velveteen's war with the machinery of superhero branding gets bigger, stranger, and more multiversal in this second collection. The satire stays sharp even when the powers get cosmic.

Alex Price is managing a basilisk breeding program at an Ohio zoo when people start turning to stone. The case drags him into danger from both cryptids and humans, and his girlfriend may be keeping secrets too.

An anthology project built around Halloween longing, dark wonder, and the afterlife of beloved spooky icons. McGuire's contribution fits the mood of melancholy mischief nicely.

A short InCryptid work steeped in old wonders, dangerous creatures, and the feeling that the side roads of the series hold stories of their own. It is brief, eerie, and very much at home in this universe.

Rose Marshall died young, stayed dead badly, and now haunts the ghost roads of America. She is still running from Bobby Cross, the man who killed her, and still trying to stop him from taking more souls.

A collection of shorter work that shows McGuire's fondness for monsters, outsiders, and nasty little turns. It is a good fit if you like her weirder side in smaller doses.

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.

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.

Long-buried truths finally start coming due, and Toby learns how much has been hidden from her. It is a turning-point book, packed with revelations, old debts, and painful choices.

War threatens when Toby is sent into the Kingdom of Silences as part of a diplomatic mission. She is badly out of her depth, and one wrong move could ignite a bloodier conflict.

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.

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.

Alex follows Shelby to Australia, where werewolves are appearing where they absolutely should not exist. Then he gets bitten, and the mission becomes very personal very fast.

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.

Verity gets the chance to return to the reality show that launched her dancing career, but old enemies are watching. Add dead bodies in a theater and the comeback starts looking like a trap.

Nancy has returned from the Halls of the Dead to a boarding school for children who have all come back wrong from magical worlds. Then murder strikes, and the school becomes a mystery as well as a refuge.

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.

Toby and Tybalt finally try to define what their relationship means in a novella that mixes romance with danger. Because in Toby's life, even a first real date can end in bloodshed.

A murder at a gathering of Faerie's powers throws Toby into high politics and a conspiracy aimed at the Mists. The stakes are wider now, and trust is getting harder to come by.

Henry Marchen is still fighting fairy-tale incursions while dealing with her own Snow White baggage. When a vicious Cinderella gets loose and someone tries to use Henry to end the world, the stakes spike hard.

The third major Velveteen collection keeps pushing the superhero world toward stranger, sadder, and more openly political ground. It is still funny, but it never forgets what the system did to its children.

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.

Annie Pearl travels the Weird West with a circus full of monsters and her young daughter, hoping to outrun the past. Then the show rolls into a remote Oregon town where disappearances are just the beginning.

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.

Before Jack and Jill arrived at Eleanor West's school, they found a doorway into the Moors. This novella tells the dark, beautiful, and very sharp story of how the sisters split apart.

Jenna died too soon and now works off her debt by volunteering at a suicide hotline for the living. When something begins enslaving New York's ghosts through mirrors, she may be the only one who can stop it.

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.

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.

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.

Antimony Price takes center stage as she goes undercover in a traveling carnival full of lies, danger, and impossible choices. Annie can handle a lot, but trust has never been her strong suit.

When loved ones vanish, Toby is forced into some of the darkest corners of Faerie and her own family history. The search pushes her toward truths that have been waiting a very long time.

Rini drops into the school on a quest to bring back her mother, even though her mother died before Rini could be born. The rescue mission is bright, weird, and built on impossible urgency.

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.

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.

Toby's lost daughter Gillian returns to her life, but not in any simple or comforting way. Family, memory, and old damage collide as Toby tries to reach her before someone else does.

Rose Marshall is still riding the ghost roads, helping the living and dodging the dead who want to own her. Bobby Cross is getting closer, and the old chase is turning into something larger.

Hiding inside a Florida theme park, Antimony Price is low on allies and options when the park's secret power structure notices her. Working undercover is hard enough without sorcerers and ex-boyfriends complicating things.

A compact speculative work about unstable realities, bad turns, and the cost of being swept along by forces bigger than yourself. McGuire keeps it short, strange, and restless.

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.

A Marvel project centered on courage under impossible pressure, with action up front and character work underneath. McGuire fits comfortably into big-universe superhero stakes.

Lundy finds her perfect world in the Goblin Market, where logic, bargains, and rules shape everything. But every rule has a cost, and Lundy is heading toward a bargain that will mark her forever.

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.

This short-story collection shows McGuire ranging across science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The pieces are smart, sharp, and often quietly mean in exactly the right way.

A playful younger-reader adventure where an ordinary meal tips into monster-filled chaos. It is light, lively, and clearly having fun with the premise.

Roger understands the world through words, Dodger through numbers, and neither of them is entirely human. An alchemist wants to use them to reach godhood, if they survive long enough to understand what they are.

Gwen Stacy returns to Earth-65 just in time for *Spider-Geddon* to drag the multiverse into crisis. This opening volume throws her into interdimensional chaos with no easy way home.

Gwen keeps bouncing between worlds while trying to hold together friendships, family, and the basic business of being a hero. The second volume keeps the emotional juggling act front and center.

With the Covenant and Lowryland's sorcerers both after her, Antimony almost welcomes a new job from the crossroads. Then the assignment turns into one of the biggest threats the series has faced.

Nightcrawler gets a story that leans into everything that makes him work: swashbuckling energy, mutant action, and a genuinely warm center. Fast, colorful, and fun.

To marry Tybalt, Toby has to survive a set of deadly trials in the Undersea. Love and politics are tangled together here, and failure could cost far more than a wedding.

As celebrations and old blood feuds collide, Toby finds herself dealing with betrayals that cut close to home. It is another reminder that Faerie never lets happiness go unchallenged.

The second Dystopia Triptych volume collects tales set during the height of oppressive regimes. Characters in these stories are already living under the boot, fighting to hold on to identity, loved ones, or a single act of rebellion in the middle of catastrophe.

Jack comes back from the Moors carrying a terrible problem only her friends can help solve. Eleanor West's school is heading out on another quest, whether the rules approve or not.

A broad collection of McGuire's short fiction, full of ghosts, monsters, grief, jokes, and bad decisions. It is a good sampler of how many different tones she can hit cleanly.

Gwen Stacy starts splitting her life between Earth-65 and the main Marvel Universe, juggling school, superhero work, and old enemies. This collection gathers the first five issues of McGuire's *Ghost-Spider* run.

Gwen's cross-dimensional balancing act gets even messier as college life, friendships, and returning threats collide. The second collection keeps the humor light and the pressure high.

First in The Dystopia Triptych, this anthology gathers stories set in societies sliding toward authoritarianism and unreality. Co‑edited by Howey, it asks how language, propaganda, and willful blindness pave the road to full‑blown dystopia.

Sarah Zellaby finally gets a book of her own, which means family drama, cuckoo politics, and impossible math all at once. A simple visit home becomes a collision with the species that abandoned her.

This anthology issue showcases original work by disabled creators, including McGuire's contribution. It is a collaborative project with a strong sense of voice and purpose.

Closing out The Dystopia Triptych, this anthology turns to what comes after the fall. Its stories imagine fragile new beginnings, hard compromises, and the lingering scars left by collapsed dystopias, asking what “better” might realistically look like.

Avery and Zib climb over a wall and into the Up-and-Under, a dangerous storybook world that refuses to stay simple. The result feels like a classic portal fantasy with sharper corners.

Regan falls through a doorway into a land of centaurs, kelpies, and heroic expectations. What she finds there is not just magic, but a complicated lesson in what courage actually looks like.

Avery and Zib leave the forest for pirate waters and a voyage full of debts, sea monsters, and dangerous obligations. The second Up-and-Under book keeps the wonder but deepens the threat.

Rose Marshall's long war with Bobby Cross is heading for a reckoning, and the ghost roads are caught in the fallout. It is the biggest and most openly mythic of the Rose books.

Sarah is stranded in a parallel dimension where the cuckoos are moving fast and memory itself has been weaponized. Saving the world may be possible, but first she has to survive the people she loves.

Gwen Stacy's symbiote problems get much worse when Carnage enters the picture. This is exactly what the title promises: messy, emotional, symbiote-heavy Spider drama.

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.

Toby and Tybalt are finally getting married, which means of course someone is trying to ruin everything. Wedding chaos turns deadly fast in a book that balances joy, nerves, and knives.

Toby is finally married and trying to adjust to normal, which in this series is always a bad sign. An old ally's betrayal turns her brief peace into a fight for everything she trusts.

A dark fantasy novella about memory, family, and the things that keep following us. McGuire keeps the scope tight and the unease close.

Avery and Zib are pulled before dangerous royalty after an unlucky meeting with the Page of Ceaseless Storms. Friendship is solidifying, but the Up-and-Under is only getting stranger.

Melanie is dying, Harry is desperate, and a road toward impossible survival opens in front of them. Their journey runs through a struggle over the crowns of Winter and Summer themselves.

A short Wayward Children tale that returns to doors, longing, and the strange logic of belonging somewhere the world insists cannot exist. Brief, melancholy, and unsettling.

Alice Price has spent fifty years looking for her lost husband across worlds, and this is her turn at center stage. The quest is exhausting, weird, and overdue in the best possible way.

Cora transfers to a second school for wayward children, one far harsher than Eleanor West's. It promises structure and certainty, but its version of help may be the most dangerous thing there.

Alice and Thomas finally get home just in time to be pulled back into the growing war with the Covenant. Rest is short, family is messy, and the road trip gets weird quickly.

This anthology revisits the Spider-Verse to introduce new spider-heroes, fresh worlds, and a lot of multiversal chaos. McGuire's contribution fits neatly into that wide-open comic-book playground.

Antsy finds herself in the Shop Where Lost Things Go, where childhood losses pile up and every door asks for a price. It is one of the saddest and sharpest Wayward Children books.

This official history threads together Overwatch's story from the Omnic Crisis through its collapse and return. It is a lore-rich guide for readers who want the world's big picture in one place.

Toby wakes in a perfect Faerie where she is the dutiful changeling daughter of pureblood parents. The trouble is that the whole world has been rewritten by Titania, and every comforting detail is a lie.

With Toby trapped inside Titania's false reality, Tybalt has to reach the woman he loves and convince her the world is wrong. It is one of the series' most personal rescue missions.

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.

Avery and Zib are finally nearing the Impossible City, but the last stretch of the road may be the deadliest. The final Up-and-Under volume does not pretend the journey home will be gentle.

Mary Dunlavy, ghost nanny to generations of the Price family, takes over as narrator just as the Covenant makes its move. The war has begun, and even being dead is not enough protection.

Antsy's talent for finding things may extend to doors, which sends her and a group of students fleeing across worlds. Dinosaurs, temptations, and hard choices all arrive along the way.

A short-story collection that lets McGuire bounce between fantasy, science fiction, horror, and the uncanny with ease. It is a strong sampler of her smaller, stranger work.

Moon gods cross the sky above the Impossible City to keep creation connected, and now someone is killing them. This sequel expands the Alchemical Journeys universe into something stranger and more mythic.

This omnibus gathers the first two Velveteen books, following a former child superhero trying to escape the system that branded her. It is the best modern doorway into this angry, funny series.

In this alternate Marvel universe, Wanda grows up in Queens as Peter Parker's adopted sister. When her powers emerge and old secrets surface, family, grief, and reality itself all start to crack.

Nadya, born without a hand and forced into a shape that never felt like hers, finds true belonging in an underwater world called Belyyreka. But even there, safety has limits.

Mary Dunlavy would love a break, but instead the living soul of Earth sends her after Covenant agents imprisoning America's ghosts. She hits the road with grieving allies for a haunted, hard-fought mission.

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.

Back in the real world at last, Toby is trying to recover from Titania's attack and prepare for motherhood. Faerie has other plans, and trouble does not stay patient for long.

An upcoming October Daye novel that promises more dangerous balancing acts between family, obligation, and Faerie politics. Toby rarely gets to choose only one duty, and that is the problem.

Sarah Zellaby is summoned to her species' homeworld to stand trial for what she has done. To save her, the Price family must cross dimensions and survive a hostile telepathic society.

More than a century after Asphodel Baker reshaped the world, her legacy is still poisoning the present. The fourth Alchemical Journeys book turns toward inheritance, reckoning, and the cost of creation.

Set in Magic: The Gathering's spell-slinging university, this tie-in mixes campus life with dangerous magic and larger threats waiting just past the classroom door. A good fit for readers who like fantasy schools with teeth.

Nancy returns to the Halls of the Dead when a darkness begins killing the living statues there. She will need help from old schoolmates in a world where death is everywhere and answers are scarce.

The next omnibus pushes Velveteen into the fallout of everything she has survived, broken, and refused to forgive. Expect more capes, more satire, and more damage that does not stay neatly hidden.