Installment Immortality
core novel 2025 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (1,243 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250375117 |
Synopsis
Mary Dunlavy, the Price family's ghostly caretaker, undertakes a mission tied to threats facing the cryptid community after the events of the previous installment. Acting on behalf of the living world's interests, she sets out to counter Covenant of St. George agents who have been imprisoning ghosts along the East Coast of America, hoping to prevent them from tightening their hold over the region's dead. Her mission takes the form of a road trip through the affected areas, undertaken alongside grieving companions who join her cause, as the group encounters both new allies and new enemies while trying to keep the Covenant from expanding its campaign against America's ghosts.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 14 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 14 of 15: previous Aftermarket Afterlife (2024) · next Butterfly Effects (2026)
Sources
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