Chaos Choreography
core novel 2016 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (6,420 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756408138 |
Synopsis
Verity returns to reality TV dance competitions while investigating disappearances tied to a supernatural curse haunting the show's history. She rejoins the competitive dance program Dance or Die, the same televised contest that first drew her into the public eye, only to find that past seasons of the show have been marked by unexplained disappearances among contestants and crew. As Verity balances the demands of competing on camera with quietly digging into what happened to the missing people, she has to keep her family's cryptozoological work hidden from producers and fellow dancers alike while determining whether the show's history conceals something far stranger than ordinary bad luck.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 5 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 5 of 15: previous Pocket Apocalypse (2015) · next Magic for Nothing (2017)
Sources
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