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* ''Kingdom of Needle and Bone'' (2018)



* {{Tuckerization}}: The author likes to toss in her good friends, but also has sold Tuckerization appearances in her books for charity.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: The author likes to toss in her good friends, but also has sold Tuckerization appearances in her books for charity.charity.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: To the point of being a VillainProtagonist, [[spoiler: the main character of ''Kingdom of Needle and Bone'' breeds a super-measles strain that permanently destroys infectees' abilities to be vaccinated, assuming they even survive, in order to convince the world of the seriousness of maintaining herd immunity. The initial outbreak alone kills ten million, including ''her own niece''.]]
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** Literature/GhostStories has Rose.
** Literature/OctoberDaye has Toby, the Luidaeg, and several others

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** Literature/GhostStories Literature/GhostRoads has Rose.
** Literature/OctoberDaye has Toby, the Luidaeg, and several othersothers.
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Weird. There's a new book coming out later this year.


* ''Literature/InCryptid'' series (2012 -- 2018)

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* ''Literature/InCryptid'' series (2012 -- 2018)present)
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** ''Literature/BeneathTheSugarSky'' (2018)
** ''Literature/InAnAbsentDream'' (2019)
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'Cause I made the series page.


* ''Wayward Children'' series (2016 -- present)

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* ''Wayward Children'' ''Literature/WaywardChildren'' series (2016 -- present)
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Seanan [=McGuire=] is an American fantasy writer and {{filk}}singer. She also writes under the name of Mira Grant, depending on what genre she's working in.

She is the current record holder of the most Hugo Award nominations in a single year, with five in 2013, winning one. Her Toby Daye series has made her a New York Times Bestselling Author as well.


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Seanan [=McGuire=] is an American fantasy writer and {{filk}}singer. She also writes under the name of Mira Grant, depending on what genre she's working in.

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singer-songwriter.

[=McGuire=]
is the current record holder of the most Hugo Award UsefulNotes/HugoAward nominations in a single year, with racking up five in 2013, (and winning one. one) in 2013. Her Toby Daye ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' series has made her a New York Times Bestselling Author as well.

well. She also writes under the {{pseudonym}} Mira Grant.

In addition to her many prose novels, [=McGuire=] also writes comic books for Creator/{{Marvel}}. In 2018, she became the new ongoing writer of ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'', and scripted the ComicBook/{{Mystique}} segment of ''ComicBook/XMenBlack'', as well as an ''ComicBook/XMenGold'' annual. As part of the ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' {{crossover}} event, she wrote the tie-in series ''The Amazing ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}''.

As a singer-songwriter in the {{filk}} genre, [=McGuire=] has released four albums to date.



!!Works with their own pages:

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!!Works with their own pages:! Selected filmography:



* ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones''
* ''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway''
* ''Literature/GhostRoads''
* ''Literature/InCryptid'' series
* ''Literature/{{Indexing}}''
* ''Literature/IntoTheDrowningDeep'' (as Mira Grant)
* ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' series (as Mira Grant)
* ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' series
* ''Literature/{{Parasitology}}'' trilogy (as Mira Grant)
* ''Literature/VelveteenVs''

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* ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones''
* ''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway''
* ''Literature/GhostRoads''
* ''Literature/InCryptid'' series
* ''Literature/{{Indexing}}''
* ''Literature/IntoTheDrowningDeep'' (as Mira Grant)
* ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' series (as Mira Grant)
!! Prose Novels
!!! '''as Seanan [=McGuire=]'''
* ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' series
series (2009 -- present)
* ''Literature/InCryptid'' series (2012 -- 2018)
* ''Literature/{{Velveteen|Vs}}'' series (2012 -- 2016)
* ''Literature/{{Indexing}}'' series (2014 -- 2015)
* ''Literature/GhostRoads'' series (2014 -- 2018)
* ''Wayward Children'' series (2016 -- present)
** ''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway'' (2016)
** ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones'' (2017)
!!! '''as Mira Grant'''
* ''Literature/{{Parasitology}}'' trilogy (as Mira Grant)
(2013 -- 2015)
* ''Literature/VelveteenVs''''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' series (2010 -- 2016)
* ''Literature/IntoTheDrowningDeep'' series (2015 -- 2017)

!! Short Stories




!! Comic Books
!!! '''Creator/MarvelComics'''
* ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen: Ghost Spider'' (2018 -- present)
* ''ComicBook/XMenBlack -- ComicBook/{{Mystique}}'' (2018)
* ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan: The Amazing ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'' (2019)



!!Other Works

* Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

* Writing as Mira Grant:
** Final Girls
** Rolling in the Deep


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!!Other Works

! Discography:
* Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

''Pretty Little Dead Girl: Seanan [=McGuire=] and Friends Live at OVFF 2005'' (2006)
* Writing as Mira Grant:
** Final Girls
** Rolling in the Deep

''Stars Fall Home'' (2007)
* ''Red Roses and Dead Things'' (2009)
* ''Wicked Girls ''(2011)



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* LyricalDissonance: A lot of her filks are cheery, bouncy numbers about horrible diseases, zombies, etc. (For example, "Zombie Wedding" actually picks up a little when the narrator mentions she'll be committing suicide to marry her newly-dead boyfriend.)

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* ''Literature/IntoTheDrowningDeep'' (as Mira Grant)



** Into the Drowning Deep


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** Into the Drowning Deep


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* ''Literature/GhostStories''

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* ''Literature/GhostStories''''Literature/GhostRoads''
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* OneOfUs: She's quite familiar with this site, made clear from her intro to the story "The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell" in the collection ''[[Literature/{{Newsflesh}} Rise]]''. She describes a character as "a manic pixie nightmare girl...part deconstruction of the trope and part broken bird".
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* ''Literature/StarWarsCantoBight'' -- "The Wine in Dreams" (as Mira Grant)
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** ''Final Girls'': Daphne and her clique of popular kids are bullies who take it to the point of violence.

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** ''Final Girls'': Daphne and her clique of popular kids are bullies who take it to the point of violence. They are also a deliberate invocation of this trope, being part of a horror movie simulation.
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* ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones''
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghosts and what they can do vary by the book unless it's a shared 'verse. The ghosts in ''DODODOD'' are different than those from the ''Literature/InCryptid'' books.
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** Jack and Kade from ''Every Heart A Doorway''. Jack is short for Jacqueline. Kade is gender flip of Katie, because he is a trans boy.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her horror novella' ''Final Girls''.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her horror novella' ''Final Girls''.Girls'' the unnamed black technician is the first to die. But this story is very much about the rules by which horror movies operate, so it's almost a low key {{lampshade}} as used.
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* TeensAreMonsters:
** ''Every Heart A Doorway'': whether the teens are monstrous because they're teens or because they're no longer accustomed to reality as we know it is left to the reader.
** ''Final Girls'': Daphne and her clique of popular kids are bullies who take it to the point of violence.
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* ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' trilogy (as Mira Grant)

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* ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' trilogy series (as Mira Grant)
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!!Other Works

* Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

* Writing as Mira Grant:
** Final Girls

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** '' Final Girls'' has Esther.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her novella' ''Final Girls''.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her horror novella' ''Final Girls''.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her novella' 'Final Girls''.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her novella' 'Final ''Final Girls''.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her novella' 'Final Girls'".

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her novella' 'Final Girls'".Girls''.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her novella' 'Final Girls'".
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** The poem "Mairzy Doats" appears in both the OctoberDaye and {{Newsflesh}} books.

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** The poem "Mairzy Doats" appears in both the OctoberDaye Literature/OctoberDaye and {{Newsflesh}} Literature/{{Newsflesh}} books.

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alphabetize works and set up indexing


!!Works having their own pages
* ''Literature/InCryptid''

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!!Works having with their own pages
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[[index]]
* ''Literature/InCryptid''''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway''
* ''Literature/GhostStories''
* ''Literature/InCryptid'' series



* ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}''
* ''Literature/{{Parasitology}}''
* ''Literature/GhostStories''
* ''Literature/OctoberDaye''

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* ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}''
''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' trilogy (as Mira Grant)
* ''Literature/{{Parasitology}}''
''Literature/OctoberDaye'' series
* ''Literature/GhostStories''
* ''Literature/OctoberDaye''
''Literature/{{Parasitology}}'' trilogy (as Mira Grant)



* ''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway''

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* ''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway''[[/index]]



!!Some of the author's trademark tropes include:

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!!Some of the author's trademark tropes include:!!Tropes in her other works:

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