History Literature / InCryptid

** In ''BackpackingThroughBedlam'', Rose shows up to give [[spoiler:Alice, Thomas, and Sally]] a mission from the [[GeniusLoci Ocean Lady]].

** In ''BackpackingThroughBedlam'', Alice escapes the Covenant and fights them until [[spoiler:Thomas, Sally, Ryan, Istas, Dominic, and most of all Sarah]] can come and subdue them.

** Wagyl venom can cure any disease or ailment, provided you survive the venom itself. And that's hardly a given.
* {{Arcadia}}: Alice visits Ithaca, a dimension home to {{centaurs}} and [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]], that's culturally similar to the original Greek Arcadia.

* PhotographicMemory[=/=]GeneticMemory[=/=]EideticMemory: The Aeslin Mice have this as a species trait. It is also enforced and reinforced since they worship the Price family as religious figures, and have litanies, celebrations, songs, feasts, festivals, proverbs, and holy writ based on the family's milestones and exploits. They also, when traveling with the family, serve as living black boxes to let the family know how any family member died should they fail to return.

* MentalFusion: The process of solving the dimension-hopping equation normally [[MySkullRunnethOver burns through the mind]] of the Johrlac doing it. To avoid this happening to Sarah, [[spoiler:Artie tells her to use his mind, Antimony's, James's, and Mark's, plus all the cuckoos surrounding them, as "[[WetwareCPU data banks]]" to offload some of the equation]]. This results in [[spoiler:all the cuckoos except Sarah, Mark, and the children being reduced to {{Empty Shell}}s, but in the process she accidentally deleted her friends' and family's memories of her to make room for the equation]]. Later, when performing the equation to return home to Earth, [[spoiler:Sarah uses as many "husked" cuckoos as they can round up, plus a little of everyone's mind, to avoid melting her mind ''again'']]. [[spoiler:Mark and Artie give up their minds so she has more space and processing power, but she's able to recreate Artie's memories from everyone else's memories of him (and the mice's PerfectMemory), and Mark appears to be undergoing the same metamorphosis that Sarah did after book 2.]]

** "[[LongTitle The Recitation of the Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork]]"

* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Jonathan had GoodParents, but his OverprotectiveDad tendencies towards Alice (sometimes bordering on abusive) definitely had a lasting effect on her views of parenting. She didn't abuse her children Kevin and Jane, but left them to be raised by her best friend while she was a MissingMom traveling through dimensions looking for her husband Thomas. She even says in her narration that she "didn't allow herself to love Jane" (who was born after Thomas was taken) to avoid further heartbreak. Fortunately, Jane and Kevin seem to have completely broken the chain, becoming GoodParents and being present for their children's entire upbringing.

** Novella: "The Recitation of the Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork": immediate sequelette to ''Magic for Nothing'' starring the Aeslin Mice named in the title, plus Sam, Aunt Mary, Emery and some members of the Spenser Carnival. Published originally on the author's Patreon, now available in the back of ''Tricks For Free.''

** "Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea", starring a half-mermaid teen & the family attempting to help. (appearing in the anthology book ''Carniepunk'')

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Angela and Martin Baker adopted three children: Evelyn (born and adopted 1965), Drew (born 1981, adopted 1983), and Sarah (born 1990, adopted 1999). By the time Sarah was adopted, Evelyn already had three children of her own (born 1987, 1990, and 1993)[[note]]who were ''there'' when Angela and Martin found Sarah[[/note]], so Sarah calls them her cousins even though she's technically their aunt.

** The dragon princesses.

** Justified: For the Aeslin mice. Reptiles tend to prey on mice.

* DeathBySex: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Enforced|Trope}} in ''That Ain't Witchcraft''. Antimony explains that cryptids ''hate it'' when humans have sex and hostile ones are compelled to attack them during it, not only because the humans will be distracted and thus easy pickings, but because they hate humans so much the act of reproduction is especially hated by them. Antimony and Sam take advantage of this by pretending to make out, so they'd be attacked.
-->"This is something slasher movies, inaccurate and frequently sexist as they are, get right" (...) If you're in the middle of nowhere and worried about something attacking you, have sex, or at least indulge in some therapeutic making out. The odds are good that whatever you're scared of will choose that moment to attack. And if you happen to be heavily armed, well, it'll be a good way to work out the frustration of being interrupted."

* SexyPackaging:[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/incryptid/images/8/8a/Cover_discount_armageddon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210715033223 The cover]] of ''Discount Armageddon'' shows Verity in a {{Fanservice}}y pose, a short skirt, and [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]]. However, it's completely supported by canon -- she works as a cocktail waitress and often doesn't have time to go home and change before patrolling for monsters. Creator/SeananMcGuire has [[https://www.facebook.com/metrolibrary/videos/3090299817856827 gone on record]] saying she actually ''chose'' the cover artist Aly Fell for having "the right sort of irreverent cheesecake aesthetic".

* QuirkyHousehold: The Price family is a BadassFamily of cryptozoologists who include a {{roofhopping}} ballroom dancer, a BadassBookworm herpetologist, a [[RollerbladeGood roller derby-playing]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent Sorcerer]], a DimensionalTraveler BadassGrandma who [[OlderThanTheyLook looks younger than her own grandkids]], and a HumanOutsideAlienInside telepath who loves math. Oh, and they also live with hundreds of mice that [[AnimalReligion worship them as gods]].

** Johrlac are stated to be descended from some kind of ''wasp'', but not only do the females have breasts, they can lactate.[[note]][[AluminumChristmasTrees There is actually a species of cockroach]] [[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/06/488861223/cockroach-milk-yes-you-read-that-right that produces "milk"]].[[/note]]

* SexyPackaging:[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/incryptid/images/8/8a/Cover_discount_armageddon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210715033223 The cover]] of ''Discount Armageddon'' shows Verity in a {{Fanservice}}y pose, a [[ShesGotLegs short skirt]], and [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]]. However, it's completely supported by canon -- she works as a cocktail waitress and often doesn't have time to go home and change before patrolling for monsters. Creator/SeananMcGuire has [[https://www.facebook.com/metrolibrary/videos/3090299817856827 gone on record]] saying she actually ''chose'' the cover artist Aly Fell for having "the right sort of irreverent cheesecake aesthetic".

** In "The Lay of the Land", Mary jokes that Thomas is "doomed" and should "just accept [his] fate now". Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment when we find out that [[spoiler:Mary brokered the deal between Thomas and the Crossroads]].

* MermaidProblem: Lampshaded by Fran in ''We Both Go Down Together'':

* PostCoitalCollapse: In ''Spelunking Through Hell'', after Alice and Thomas reunite and have SGladToBeAliveSex, it ends with Alice describing Thomas rolling off her and collapsing beside her in bed, while panting for breath.

*** The first is after Alice loses conscious while enduring the FlayingAlive process at Naga's estate. She awakens naked on the same metal table, and finds a robe nearby to cover herself up.
*** The second time is after Alice passes out due to magical overexertion. When she next wakes up in the Autarch's compound, she finds herself in a bed, having been stripped out of all her clothes and weapons, and is now only wearing filmy, diaphanous robe. Although she's worried about her HiddenWeapons being gone, she figures the fact she isn't being restrained is a good sign.

* TheyFightCrime: She's a ballroom dancer slash strip club waitress! He's a church-trained uptight monster hunter with no clue about the way of the world. They hunt dangerous cryptids!

** Fran and Jonathan in 1928, in ''The Flower of Arizona''. Jonathan pulls a gun on Fran, who [[WeaponOfChoice throws a knife into the wall behind him faster than he can see]].

* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: The series features several lesser-known cryptids/mythical creatures, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C5%ABri Fūri]], [[https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Waheela Waheela]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laidly_Worm_of_Spindleston_Heugh Laidly Worms]], [[https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Ahool Ahool]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caladrius Caladrius]], alongside ones the author appears to have invented herself, such as the [[BackstoryInvader Johrlac]][[note]]An argument ''could'' be made that they're a variation of the ChangelingTale, but they're never called that in-universe.[[/note]], [[http://seananmcguire.com/fgmadhura.php Madhura]], and the [[http://seananmcguire.com/fgfricken.php Fricken]].

* DeathFakedForYou:

* FullFrontalAssault: In ''Midnight Blue-Light Special'', when [[spoiler:the Covenant captures Verity]], they strip her naked to make sure she doesn't have any hidden weapons. She escapes and has to fight them unclothed.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Verity and Dominic's sex life is athletic and enthusiastic.

* HealingFactor: [[HornyDevils Lilu]] heal extremely fast -- Ted can pop a broken bone back in place and be perfectly fine an hour later. His HalfHumanHybrid kids Elsie and Artie aren't quite as lucky, though they still heal faster than humans.

* SarcasticConfession: See {{Masquerade}} above.