The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 40 books · 2009 to 2025 · Often set in San Francisco

Seanan McGuire

Crime and mysteryFantasyYoung adultPrivate eyeUrban fantasyComic fantasyYA fantasy

Seanan McGuire writes October Daye, a changeling private investigator caught up in the faerie courts of San Francisco, the cryptid-protecting Price family of InCryptid, and the Wayward Children novellas about children who fall into other worlds.

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Seanan McGuire books in order

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October Daye

19 books · Set in San FranciscoUrban fantasyPrivate eye
  1. 1Rosemary and Rue2009With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  2. 2A Local Habitation2010With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  3. 3An Artificial Night2010With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Late Eclipses2011With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  5. 5One Salt Sea2011With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Ashes of Honor2012With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Chimes at Midnight2013With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  8. 8The Winter Long2014With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  9. 9A Red-Rose Chain2015With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  10. 10Once Broken Faith2016With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  11. 11The Brightest Fell2017With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  12. 12Night and Silence2018With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  13. 13The Unkindest Tide2019With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  14. 14A Killing Frost2020With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  15. 15When Sorrows Come2021With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  16. 16Be the Serpent2022With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  17. 17Sleep No More2023With October DayeBuy on Amazon
  18. 18The Innocent Sleep2024With TybaltBuy on Amazon
  19. 19Silver and Lead2025With October DayeBuy on Amazon

InCryptid

12 books · Set in various placesUrban fantasyComic fantasy
  1. 1Discount Armageddon2012With Verity PriceBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Midnight Blue-Light Special2013With Verity PriceBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Half-Off Ragnarok2014With Alex PriceBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Pocket Apocalypse2015With Alex PriceBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Chaos Choreography2016With Verity PriceBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Magic for Nothing2017With Antimony PriceBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Tricks for Free2018With Antimony PriceBuy on Amazon
  8. 8That Ain't Witchcraft2019With Antimony PriceBuy on Amazon
  9. 9Imaginary Numbers2020With Sarah ZellabyBuy on Amazon
  10. 10Calculated Risks2021With Sarah ZellabyBuy on Amazon
  11. 11Spelunking Through Hell2022With Alice HealyBuy on Amazon
  12. 12Backpacking Through Bedlam2023With Alice HealyBuy on Amazon

Wayward Children

9 books · Set in Eleanor West's SchoolUrban fantasyYA fantasy
  1. 1Every Heart a Doorway2016With NancyBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Down Among the Sticks and Bones2017With Jack Wolcott and Jill WolcottBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Beneath the Sugar Sky2018Buy on Amazon
  4. 4In an Absent Dream2019With LundyBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Come Tumbling Down2020With Jack WolcottBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Across the Green Grass Fields2021Buy on Amazon
  7. 7Where the Drowned Girls Go2022With CoraBuy on Amazon
  8. 8Lost in the Moment and Found2023Buy on Amazon
  9. 9Mislaid in Parts Half-Known2024Buy on Amazon

Characters

18 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

The Mists

The Price family

Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children