Pocket Apocalypse
core novel 2015 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.07 (7,091 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756408121 |
Synopsis
Alex Price travels to Australia to study local cryptids and confronts a werewolf outbreak threatening both human and cryptid communities. Accompanied by Shelby Tanner, the zookeeper he has grown close to, Alex travels to her home country in his capacity as a family expert on werewolf epidemics, only to find that a serious outbreak is already underway. As the two work to understand the scale of the threat, they must navigate unfamiliar cryptid communities and a landscape where infected werewolves endanger both ordinary people and the hidden creatures Alex's family has sworn to protect, all while Alex and Shelby's relationship is tested by the demands of the crisis around them.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 4 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 4 of 15: previous Half-Off Ragnarok (2014) · next Chaos Choreography (2016)
Sources
← InCryptid dossier · All universes
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