Spelunking Through Hell
core novel 2022 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (3,056 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756411831 |
Synopsis
Annie Pryor (formerly Antimony) and her companions descend into a dangerous underground realm on a rescue mission fraught with cryptid peril. The book follows Alice Price-Healy, who after fifty years of searching for her long-missing husband Thomas intensifies her efforts once the crossroads that once stood in her way are destroyed, launching what amounts to a journey across chaotic dimensions in search of the gateway that might reunite them. Navigating uncertain alliances and potential enemies as a cryptozoologist moving between worlds, Alice presses on with the search even as she must reckon with the possibility that finding Thomas will not be as simple as she hopes.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 11 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 11 of 15: previous Calculated Risks (2021) · next Backpacking Through Bedlam (2023)
Sources
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