Backpacking Through Bedlam
core novel 2023 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.25 (2,493 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756418571 |
Synopsis
This installment centers on Alice Price-Healy, who reunites with her long-lost husband Thomas Price after a fifty-year search through a strange underworld realm, only to find he returns accompanied by an unexpected surrogate daughter. The reunited trio makes their way back to Earth to discover the world much changed in their absence, with the Covenant of St. George mounting a renewed offensive to reclaim North America from cryptids and the cryptozoologists who protect them, drawing the newly reunited family quickly back into danger as they try to find their footing in a home that no longer matches the one Alice left behind.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 12 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (InCryptid): Multi-generation cryptozoologist family (the Prices/Hayleighs) vs. the Covenant of St. George; DAW. A 16th novel is anticipated by some third-party listings but is not announced on the author's own bibliography page, and is not registered (Article 2). McGuire has also published 50+ further InCryptid short stories/novellas (anthologies, bonus content, Patreon); deliberately deferred as Expanded Canon out of scope, per the same scale-driven deferral this project already applied to Oz's Famous Forty continuation books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series InCryptid: position 12 of 15: previous Spelunking Through Hell (2022) · next Aftermarket Afterlife (2024)
Sources
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