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Seanan McGuire

Posted on November 27, 2024January 22, 2025 by Sami

This is an attempt to read everything by Seanan McGuire I can get my hands on, including things under her pen names. I highly recommend her Patreon, where you can read a whole lot of short stories for as little as $1 a month. (That’s where you’ll find everything tagged “Patreon” on this list.)

  • October (Toby) Daye
  • Incryptid
  • Newsflesh
  • Velveteen
  • Parasitology
  • Indexing
  • Ghost Roads
  • Drowning Deep
  • Wayward Children
  • Alchemical Journeys
  • The Up and Under (as A Deborah Baker)
  • Other Books as Seanan McGuire
  • Other Books as Mira Grant
  • Nonfiction & Essays
  • Patreon (the Tybalt Stories)
  • Patreon (not listed elsewhere)
  • Short Stories (not listed elsewhere)

October (Toby) Daye

X1Rosemary and Rue (2009)
X2A Local Habitation (2010)
2.1Rat Catcher in A Fantasy Medley 2 (Tybalt- Dec 2012)
X3An Artificial Night (2010)
X4Late Eclipses (2011)
4.1Through This House in Home Improvement, Undead Edition (Aug 2011)
X5One Salt Sea (2011)
5.1In Sea-Salt Tears in One Salt Sea (Luidaeg- Sep 2011) on website
5.2Forbid the Sea (Sep 2013)
X6Ashes of Honor (2012)
6.1No Sooner Met (Jan 2015) on website
X7Chimes at Midnight (2013)
7.1Never Shines the Sun in Chimes at Midnight (Sep 2013)
7.2Full of Briars e-original (Quentin- Aug 2016)
X8The Winter Long (2014)
8.1Heaps of Pearl (Lordens- Jan 2016) on website
8.2Shore to Shore Patreon (Lordens- May 2017)
8.3Write in Water Patreon (Lordens- Jan 2018)
8.4Live in Brass Patreon (Lordens- Feb 2018)
8.5The Ambitious Ocean Patreon (Lordens- Oct 2018)
8.6And Thrice Again Patreon (Lordens- Dec 2018)
8.9The Fixed Stars in Shattered Shields (Luidaeg- Nov 2014)
X9A Red-Rose Chain (2015)
9.1In Little Stars Patreon (Prince Gilad- Aug 2016)
X10Once Broken Faith (2016)
10.1Dreams and Slumbers in Once Broken Faith (Arden- Sep 2016)
X11The Brightest Fell (2017)
11.1Of Things Unknown in The Brightest Fell (April- Sep 2017)
11.2These Antique Fables Patreon (January- Apr 2018)
X12Night and Silence (2018)
12.1Suffer a Sea Change in Night and Silence (Gillian Sep 2018)
12.2Sun Sets Weeping Patreon (Jun 2019)
X13The Unkindest Tide (2019)
13.1Hope is Swift in The Unkindest Tide (Raj- Sep 2019)
13.2Strangers in Court in Rosemary & Rue 10th Anniversary Edition (Oct 2019)
X14A Killing Frost (2020)
14.1And Deeps Below Patreon (Lordens- Nov 2021)
14.2Sacrifice Your Tears Patreon (Lordens- Feb 2022)
14.3Into the Sea Patreon (Lordens- May 2022)
14.4In Safety Rest Patreon (Lordens- Jul 2022)
14.5Upon Your Honor Patreon (Lordens- Aug 2022)
14.6With Sweet Peace Patreon (Lordens- Sep 2022)
14.7Like a Dream Patreon (Lordens- Nov 2022)
X15When Sorrows Come (2021)
X16Be the Serpent (2022)
17Sleep No More (2023)
18These Violent Delights (2024)

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Incryptid

0.01The Flower of Arizona in Westward Weird (Jonathan & Francis- Feb 2012)
0.02One Hell of a Ride (Jonathan & Francis- Feb 2012) on website
0.03No Place Like Home (Jonathan & Francis- Apr 2012) on website
0.04Stingers and Strangers in Dead Man’s Hand (Jonathan & Francis- May 2014)
0.05Married in Green (Jonathan & Francis- Mar 2013) on website
0.06Sweet Poison Wine (Jonathan & Francis- Apr 2013) on website
0.07The First Fall (Jonathan & Francis- Jun 2013) on website
0.08Loch and Key (Jonathan & Francis- Aug 2013) on website
0.09We Both Go Down Together (Jonathan & Francis- Nov 2013) on website
0.10Oh Pretty Bird (Jonathan & Francis- Jul 2014) on website
0.11Bury Me in Satin (Jonathan & Francis- Aug 2014) on website
0.12Snakes and Ladders (Jonathan & Francis- Oct 2014) on website
0.13Broken Paper Hearts (Jonathan & Francis- Feb 2015) on website
0.14The Star of New Mexico (Jonathan & Francis- Jun 2015) on website
0.15The Way Home (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2015) on website
0.16Take the Shot Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2019)
0.17Winter Sunshine Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Nov 2019)
0.18The Lay of the Land (Thomas & Alice- Feb 2017) on website
0.19Target Practice (Thomas & Alice) on website
0.20Off Balance Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jan 2020)
0.21All That Glitters Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Feb 2020)
0.22What You Pay For Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Nov 2020)
0.23What You Build Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jan 2021)
0.24The Hand of the Forest Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Mar 2021)
0.25By Any Other Name Patreon (Thomas & Alice- May 2021)
0.26To Build a Better… Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jun 2021)
0.27Halfway Through the Wood Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jul 2021)
0.28School Belles Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2021)
0.29Long Way from Home Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Jan 2022)
0.30How to Bake a Pie Patreon (Thomas & Alice- Oct 2022)
1Discount Armageddon (Verity- 2012)
1.1What Was I Meant to Do? Patreon (Dave- Aug 2020)
2Midnight Blue-Light Special (Verity- 2013)
3Half-Off Ragnarok (Alex- 2014)
3.1The Ghosts of Bourbon Street (Verity & Dominic- Mar 2014) on website
3.2Snake in the Glass (Verity & Dominic- Dec 2015) on website
3.3Swamp Bromeliad (Verity & Dominic- Feb 2016) on website
3.4Waking Up in Vegas (Verity & Dominic- May 2016) on website
3.5My Last Name (Verity & Dominic- Jan 2017) on website
3.10Blocked (Antimony- Feb 2014) on website
3.11Bad Dream Girl in Glitter & Mayhem (Antimony- Aug 2013)
3.12Jammed in Games People Play (Antimony- Apr 2014)
3.13Survival Horror in Press Start to Play (Antimony & Artie- Aug 2015)
3.20IM (Sarah & Arthur- Jun 2014)
3.30Red as Snow in Hex and the City (Istas & Ryan- Dec 2013)
3.31Black as Blood (Istas & Ryan- Jan 2014) on website
3.32White as a Raven’s Wing (Istas & Ryan- Dec 2014) on website
4Pocket Apocalypse (Alex & Shelby- 2015)
4.1Balance in Urban Enemies (Eliza (unmodified cuckoo) Aug 2017)
4.2Sleepover in Shadowed Souls (Elsie- Nov 2016)
5Chaos Choreography (Verity- Mar 2016)
6Magic for Nothing (Antimony- Mar 2017)
X6.1The Recitation of the Most Holy and Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork Patreon (Aisling Mice- Apr 2017))
7Tricks for Free (Antimony- 6 Mar 2018)
8That Ain’t Witchcraft (Antimony- 5 Mar 2019)
9Imaginary Numbers (Sarah- 25 Feb 2020)
10Calculated Risks (Sarah- 23 Feb 2021)
11Spelunking Through Hell (Alice- 2022)
12Backpacking Through Bedlam (Alice- 2023)

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Newsflesh (as Mira Grant)

X1Feed (George- 27 Apr 2010)
X1.5Fed (AU alternate ending- May 2012)
X2Deadline (Shaun- 31 May 2011)
X3Blackout (Both- 1 Jun 2012)
X4Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection (SSC 2016)
– Countdown (2011)
– Everglades (2010)
– San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats (2012)
– How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea (2013)
– The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (2014)
– Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (2015)
– All the Pretty Little Horses (2016)
– Coming to You Live (2016)
5Feedback (4 Oct 2016)

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Velveteen

1Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots (9 Nov 2012)
2Velveteen vs. The Multiverse (31 Aug 2013)
3Velveteen vs. The Seasons (5 May 2016)

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Parasitology (as Mira Grant)

1Parasite (29 Oct 2013)
2Symbiont (25 Nov 2014)
3Chimera (24 Nov 2015)

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Indexing

X1Indexing (21 Jan 2014)
X2Indexing: Reflections (12 Jan 2016)

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Ghost Roads

0.5Train Yard Blues in Coins of Chaos (Oct 203)
1Sparrow Hill Road (6 May 2014)
1.1Last Call at the Last Chance Patreon (Nov 2017)
2The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (17 Jul 2018)
3Angel of the Overpass (11 May 2021)

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Drowning Deep (as Mira Grant)

0.5Rolling in the Deep (6 Aug 2015)
X1Into the Drowning Deep (4 Nov 2017)

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Wayward Children

X1Every Heart a Doorway (Nancy- 5 Apr 2016)
X2Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Jack & Jill- 13 Jun 2017)
X3Beneath the Sugar Sky (Rini- 9 Jan 2018)
X4In an Absent Dream (Lundy- 8 Jan 2019)
X4.1Juice Like Wounds (Lundy- Oct 2022)
X5Come Tumbling Down (Jack & Jill- 7 Jan 2020)
X5.1In Mercy, Rain (Jack- Jul 2022)
X6Across the Green Grass Fields (Regan- 12 Jan 2021)
X7Where the Drowned Girls Go (Cora- Jan 2022)
X7.1In Mercy, Rain ()
7.2Skeleton Girl (Christopher- Oct 22)
X8Lost in the Moment and Found (Antoinette- Jan 2023)
X9Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Antoinette and friends- Jan 2024)
10Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Nadya- Jan 2025)

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Alchemical Journeys

1Middlegame (7 May 2019)
2Seasonal Fears (2022)

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The Up and Under (as A Deborah Baker)

1Over the Woodward Wall (Oct 2020)
2Along the Saltwise Sea (Oct 2021)
3Into the Windwracked Wilds (2022)

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Other Books (as Seanan McGuire)

1Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day (10 Jan 2017)
2Deadlands: Boneyard (17 Oct 2017)
3Laughter at the Academy (SSC 2019 – Collected 2009-2019)
– Laughter at the Academy: A Field Study in the Genesis of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD) (2013)
– Lost (2012)
– The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells (2011)
– Uncle Sam (2011)
– Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage (2011)
– Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (2013)
– Homecoming (2013)
– Frontier ABCs: The Life and Times of Charity Smith, Schoolteacher (2013)
– We Are All Misfit Toys in the Aftermath of the Velveteen War (2014)
– The Lambs (2014)
– Each to Each (2015)
– Bring About the Halloween Eternal (2014)
– Office Memos (2014)
– Lady Antheia’s Guide to Horticultural Warfare (2014)
– Driving Jenny Home (2014)
– There is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold (2015)
– In Skeleton Leaves (2015)
– Please Accept My Most Profound Apologies for What is About to Happen (But You Started It) (2017)
– Threnody for Little Girl, With Tuna, At the End of the World (2016)
– From A to Z in the Book of Changes (2017)
– #connollyhouse #weshouldntbehere (2019)
– Down, Deep Down, Below the Waves (2015)
4Dying with Her Cheer Pants On: Stories of the Fighting Pumpkins (SSC Oct 2020)
– The Most Sincere Patch (2020)
– Dying With Her Cheer Pants On (2010)
– Tryouts (2020)
– Trial by Fire (2020)
– Gimme a “Z” (2011)
– Turn the Year Around (2014)
– Fiber (2015)
– Switchblade Smile (2020)
– School Colors (2017)
– Compete Me (2020)
– Away Game (2019)

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Other Books (as Mira Grant)

1When Will You Rise? Stories to End the World (2012)
– Countdown (Nov 2011)
– Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box (2011)
2Final Girls (Apr 2017)
3Kingdom of Needle and Bone (Dec 2018)
4Alien: Echo (9 Apr 2019)
5In the Shadow of Spindrift House (Jul 2019)
6Square3 (Dec 2021)

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Nonfiction & Essays

1Mathematical Excellence: A Documentary in Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It (Mar 2010)
2The Girls Next Door: Learning to Live with the Living Dead and Never Even Break a Nail in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them (Mar 2011)
3Waiting for the Doctor: The Women of Series Five in Chicks Unravel Time (2012)
4Summers and Winters, Frost and Flame in Chicks Dig Comics (Apr 2012)
5How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Numbers: A Girl, A Rulebook, and Arithmetic in Chicks Dig Gaming (2014)
6Letters to the Pumpkin King (Feb 2014)
5That Nitro-9 That You’re Not Carrying: Violence and the Companion in Companion Piece (2015)
6Neat Things in Letters to Tiptree (2015)
7The Secret Language of Fanfic in Loose Lips (2016)
8Thoughts on Writing online at Aphelion Webzine (ongoing)

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Patreon (the Tybalt Stories)

1Stage of Fools (Jun 2016)
2The Voice of Lions (Oct 2016)
3The Act of Hares (Jan 2017)
4Instruments of Darkness (Aug 2017)
5With Honest Trifles (Sep 2017)
6In Deepest Consequence (Dec 2017)
7Jealous in Honor (Jun 2018)
8Quick in Quarrel (Aug 2018)
9Of Strange Oaths (Apr 2019)
10Dreams and Sighs (Aug 2019)
11Wishes and Tears (Jul 2020)
12Poor Fancy’s Followers (Oct 2020)
13Our Trial Patience (Dec 2020)
14Earth for Charity (Apr 2021)
15Mean and Mighty (Sep 2021)

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Patreon (not listed elsewhere)

1Threnody for Little Girl, With Tuna (Jul 2016)
2The Levee Was Dry (Sep 2016)
3In the Before, When Legends Were True (Nov 2016)
4Falls Like Snow (Dec 2016)
5Her Heart Never Came Down Again (Feb 2017)
6Carry On (Mar 2017)
7Cabbages and Kings (Jun 2017)
8From A to Z in the Book of Changes (Jul 2017)
9Heart of Straw (Oct 2017)
10Now Rest, My Dear (Mar 2018)
11Good Night, Sleep Tight (May 2018)
12Harvest (Jul 2018)
13File and Forget (Sep 2018)
14Love in the Last Days of the Doomed World (Nov 2018)
15Sweet as Sugar Candy (Jan 2019)
16On the Side (Feb 2019)
17Emergency Landing (Mar 2019)
18Vegetables and Vaccines (May 2019)
19Face Your Furs (Jul 2019)
20Come Marching In (Sep 2019)
21Help Wanted (Dec 2019)
22Another Beautiful Day (Mar 2020)
23In the Land of Rainbows and Ash (Apr 2020)
24The Proper Thing (May 2020)
25Ratting (Jul 2020)
26Belief (Sep 2020)
27Inflatable Angel (Feb 2021)
28Conflation (Aug 2021)
29Until Persephone Comes Home (Dec 21)
30Ghost Lights (Mar 2022)
31Those Three Girls from Rush’s Bend (Apr 2022)
32The War Comes Home (Jun 2022)

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Short Stories (not listed elsewhere)

1Let’s Pretend in The Edge of Propinquity (Nov 2008)
2Animal Husbandry in Grants Pass, reprinted in Wastelands 2 (Aug 2009)
3Anthony’s Vampire on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
4Knives on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
5Changing Meanings on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
6Lady of Tides on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
7A Citizen in Childhood’s Country on Book View Cafe (Aug 2009)
8Julie Broise and the Devil in Wily Writers (Rush’s Bend Oct 2009)
9Inspirations in The Edge of Propinquity (Oct 2009)
10The Alchemy of Alcohol in Tales form the Ur-Bar (Mina Norton Mar 2011)
11Riddles in Human Tales (Apr 2011)
12Cinderella City in Human for a Day (Mina Norton Dec 2011)
13Lady of the Waters in River (Dec 2011)
14We Will Not Be Undersold! in The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity (Mar 2012)
15Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea in Carniepunk (Jul 2013)
16Hook Agonistes with Jay Lake in Subterranean Magazine (Sep 2013)
17Midway Relics and Dying Breeds in METAtropolis 3: Green Spaces and at Tor.com (Oct 2013)
18Spores in The End is Nigh (Fungal Apocalypse 1of3 Feb 2014)
19Knit a Sweater Out of Sky in Dead But Not Forgotten (world of Sookie Stackhouse May 2014)
20In Roses as Mira Grant in Popular Science (Aug 2014)
21Fruiting Bodies in The End is Now (Fungal Apocalypse 2of3 Sep 2014)
22Best Served Cold in Streets of Shadows (Sep 2014)
23The Happiest Place… as Mira Grant in The End Has Come (May 2015)
24Resistance in The End Has Come (Fungal Apocalypse 3of3 May 2015)
25The Myth of Rain in Lightspeed Magazine reprinted in Loosed Upon the World (May 2015)
26The Moon Inside in Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed (Jul 2015)
27Reading Lists in Temporally Out of Order (Aug 2015)
28Something Lost, Something Gained in Seize the Night (Oct 2015)
29Into the Green in Bloodlines (Oct 2015)
30Hello, Hello in Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft (Nov 2015)
31We are the Shadows Cast by the Memory of Giants in Truth Beyond Paradox (Feb 2016)
32Dragonflies in The Doomsday Chronicles (Mar 2016)
33The Jaws that Bite, The Claws that Catch in Lightspeed Magazine (May 2016)
34Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands in Uncanny Magazine (May 2016)
35Something in the Rain in Defying Doomsday (May 2016)
36Regulation in Galactic Games (Jun 2016)
37Long Way Down in Genius Loci (Jun 2016)
38Tailed in Urban Allies (non-canonical Verity story Jul 2016)
34Inch by Inch and Row by Row in Limbus, Inc. Volume III (Jul 2016)
35Best in Show in Were- (Sep 2016)
36Sincerity (Gatsby) in Loose Lips (Sep 2016)
37In the Desert Like a Bone in The Starlit Wood (Oct 2016)
38Forbidden Texts in What the #@&% is That? (Nov 2016)
39Be Still, and Listen in The Grimm Future (Nov 2016)
40And Men Will Mine the Mountains For Our Souls in Unfettered II (Nov 2016)
41The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids in Black Feathers (Feb 2017)
42Persephone at Tor.com (Mar 2017)
43Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair in Cosmic Powers (Apr 2017)
44Graffiti of the Lost and Dying Places in Dark Cities (May 2017)
45Pedestal in Behind the Mask (May 2017)
X46How the Maine Coon Cat Learned to Love the Sea in Uncanny Magazine (Jul 2017)
47You Can Stay All Day as Mira Grant in Nights of the Living Dead (Jul 2017)
48Pixie Season in Lawless Lands (Jul 2017)
49Rust in Peace in Submerged (Sep 2017)
50Heroes Never Die in Hail Our Robot Conquerors (Sep 2017)
51With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds in Haunted Nights (Oct 2017)
52Blood and Sand as Mira Grant in Predator: If It Bleeds (Oct 2017)
53Red Dirt as Mira Grant in Joe Ledger: Unstoppable (Oct 2017)
54What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down in Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction (Nov 2017)
55An Emptied Vessel in Hardboiled Horror (Nov 2017)
56The Wine in Dreams as Mira Grant in Star Wars: Canto Bright (Dec 2017)
57Sentence Like a Saturday in Mad Hatters and March Hares (Dec 2017)
58By Promise Preordained in The Demons of King Solomon (Dec 2017)
59Build Me A Wonderland in Robots vs. Fairies (Jan 2018)
60Sister, Dearest Sister, Let Me Show You to the Sea in The Devil and the Deep (Mar 2018)
61Rise Up, Rise Up, You Children of the Moon in The Razors Edge (Jun 2018)
62Swear Not By the Moon in Infinity’s End (Jul 2018)
63Riding Ever Southward, In the Company of Bees in Hath No Fury (Aug 2018)
64Mother, Mother, Will You Play With Me in Mother of Invention (Sep 2018)
65Remember the Green in Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders (Sep 2018)
66Falling’s Free, Gravity Costs in Unidentified Funny Objects 7 (Sep 2018)
67Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like Hunger with Jennifer Brozek in Chiral Mad 4 (Oct 2018)
68Fresh as a New Fallen Snow in Hark! The Herald Angels Scream (Oct 2018)
69Under the Sea of Stars in Lightspeed Magazine (Dec 2018)
70Harmony in A People’s Future of the United States (Feb 2019)
71But We Were Heroes Once, In Empty Places, After Dark in the Gamer Chronicles (Feb 2019)
72Stripes in the Sunset in Unfettered III (Mar 2019)
73So Sharp, So Bright, So Final in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (Jun 2019)
74Must Be This Tall to Ride in Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Aug 2019)
75Phantoms of the Midway in Mythic Dream (Sep 2019)

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