InCryptid Wiki

**InCryptid** and **Ghost Roads** are two series by Seanan McGuire set in the same universe. While they can be read independently, they share worldbuilding and certain key characters.

Browse the Series List for titles and reading order of each series.

## LATEST RELEASES

**Ghost Roads**
May 2021
Angel of the Overpass**InCryptid**
March 2023
Backpacking Through Bedlam**Novella**
March 2023
The Mysteries of the Stolen God and Where His Waffles Went**Patreon**
April 2023
Passing Grades in Penance
### Spoiler Policy

This wiki uses spoiler notifications for details on the **two most recent InCryptid novels,** the **final Ghost Roads novel,** and for the **Patreon stories as a whole**. For example:

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## IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR

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*Cryptid, noun:*

1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983.

2. That thing that's getting ready to eat your head.

*3. See also: "monster."*

The Covenant of St. George was founded to uphold one simple ideal: anything that was not present on the Ark—anything they deemed "unnatural"—needed to be destroyed. Monsters. Creatures of myth and legend. All of them would be wiped from the Earth in the name of Man's dominion. Unfortunately for them, not all the monsters agreed with this plan...and neither did all the human beings.

After their rather abrupt departure from the Covenant, Alexander and Enid Healy found themselves alone in the world, but with a simple mission of their own: to protect the cryptids of the world from those who would harm them without just cause. It was a cause that would eventually claim both their lives, leaving their children, and their children's children, to take up the fight. Now in the modern day, their descendants struggle to stay beneath the Covenant's radar, while defending the cryptids from humanity—and humanity from the cryptids.

## LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ROSE MARSHALL...

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*"Have you ever heard the story of the woman at the diner?" —Rose Marshall*

Everyone knows the urban legend about the girl who asks for a ride home; the one who turns out to have been dead all along. But where did she come from? Who was she? And how did she die? She's been called a lot of things: the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Diner, and the Spirit of Sparrow Hill Road. Around here, we call her Rose.

Rose Marshall was sixteen years old in 1952, pretty as a picture, and in the wrong place at the wrong time. A drive along Sparrow Hill Road turned into a fight for her life—a fight she was destined to lose. Her story could have ended there, but a lucky break and a well-timed ride home set her on a different path. She's been running down the ghostroads ever since, one more casualty who never made it home.

A lot of people have said a lot of things about her; she's been called everything from angel to devil, from ghost story to myth to something more. They whisper her name everywhere from Michigan to Maine, from Wyoming to Washington...but no one knows what really happened that long-ago night at the top of Sparrow Hill.

Not until now.

## FAN COMMUNITY

The InCryptid Wiki was first created in June 2021. With lore from over a dozen books and nearly as much bonus material, there is still plenty of information that can still be added. This wiki is a community-based project, which means anyone can contribute. If we missed a detail or made a mistake, consider trying your hand at editing!

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