Order of Michael Marshall Smith Books
Michael Marshall Smith is an English novelist of science fiction, horror and thriller novels (and screenplays). He writes as Michael Marshall, Michael Marshall Smith and M.M. Smith. Michael writes the Straw Men Trilogy. He was born in England, but has also lived in the U.S., South Africa and Australia, but eventually returned to England. Micharl studied Philosophy and Social and Political Science at Cambridge, although he admits that he spent most of his time performing for the Cambridge Footlights. He then moved onto BBC Radio before becoming a writer. Michael lives his wife in Santa Cruz, California.
Michael Marshall Smith’s debut novel was published in 1994, entitled Only Forward. In 2002, he dropped the “Smith” for his Straw Men series. He still uses his last name for short stories and screenplays. Below is a list of Michael Marshall Smith’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Straw Men Books
(as Michael Marshall)
The Straw Men | (2002) | |
The Upright Man | (2004) | |
Blood of Angels | (2005) |
Publication Order of Ememess Collections
Ememess, Issue 1 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 2 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 3 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 4 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 5 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 6 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 7 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 8 | (2012) | |
Ememess, Issue 9 | (2012) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Only Forward | (1994) | |
Spares | (1996) | |
One of Us | (1998) | |
The Intruders | (2007) | |
The Servants | (2007) | |
Bad Things | (2009) | |
Killer Move | (2011) | |
We Are Here | (2012) | |
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence | (2017) | |
Time Out | (2024) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Man Who Drew Cats | (1990) | |
The Dark Land | (1991) | |
To Receive Is Better | (1994) | |
More Tomorrow | (1995) | |
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself | (1996) | |
Foreign Bodies | (1996) | |
The Vaccinator | (1999) | |
The Handover | (2000) | |
What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night | (2009) | |
Sad, Dark Thing | (2011) | |
Diet Hell | (2012) | |
A Convenient Arrangement | (2012) | |
Save As… | (2012) | |
Being Right | (2012) | |
When God Lived In Kentish Town | (2012) | |
Missed Connection | (2012) | |
The Seventeenth Kind | (2012) | |
Autumn | (2012) | |
Later | (2012) | |
Two Shot | (2012) | |
Enough Pizza | (2012) | |
More Bitter Than Death | (2012) | |
Maybe Next Time | (2012) | |
Everybody Goes | (2012) | |
The Fracture | (2012) | |
Getting Over | (2012) | |
A Long Walk, For The Last Time | (2012) | |
Open Doors | (2012) | |
Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions | (2012) | |
The Gist | (2013) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
What You Make It | (1999) | |
Cat Stories | (2001) | |
More Tomorrow and Other Stories | (2003) | |
Everything You Need | (2013) | |
The Best of Michael Marshall Smith | (2020) |
Publication Order of Cemetery Dance Select Books
Cemetery Dance Select: Bev Vincent | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Jeff Strand | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Tuttle | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Terry Dowling | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael Marshall Smith | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: John R. Little | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Lee Thomas | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Peter Atkins | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Kealan Patrick Burke | (2015) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Ed Gorman | (2016) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Simon Clark | (2016) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael McBride | (2016) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Poppy Z. Brite | (2017) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Christopher Conlon | (2017) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Gene O’Neill | (2017) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Keith Minnion | (2017) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Tim Waggoner | (2017) | |
Cemetery Dance Select: Rick Hautala | (2020) | |
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Publication Order of Kim Newman Short Story Collections
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories | (1994) | |
Famous Monsters | (1995) | |
Binary 2 | (1998) | |
Unforgivable Stories | (2000) | |
Where The Bodies Are Buried | (2000) | |
Dead Travel Fast | (2005) | |
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | (2007) | |
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club | (2010) | |
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Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | |
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Publication Order of The Lovecraft Squad Books
All Hallows Horror | (2017) | |
Waiting | (2017) | |
Dreaming | (2018) | |
Rising | (2020) | |
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Publication Order of Anomaly Files Books
(as Michael Rutger)
The Anomaly | (2018) | |
The Possession | (2019) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | |
Darklands No 1 | (1991) | |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | |
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | |
Dark Voices 6 | (1994) | |
The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural | (1994) | |
The Giant Book of Terror | (1994) | |
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | (1994) | |
Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | |
Dark Terrors | (1995) | |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | |
Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection | (1996) | |
Lethal Kisses | (1996) | |
Secret City | (1997) | |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | |
Dark Terrors 3 | (1997) | |
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares | (1997) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | |
The Mammoth Book of Dracula | (1997) | |
Dark Terrors 4 | (1998) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | |
Binary 2 | (1998) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | |
Dark Terrors 5 | (2000) | |
Foursight | (2000) | |
October Dreams | (2000) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | |
Keep Out The Night | (2002) | |
Dark Terrors 6 | (2002) | |
The Mammoth Book of New Terror | (2004) | |
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2004) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | |
Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror | (2006) | |
The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration | (2006) | |
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology | (2006) | |
Summer Chills | (2007) | |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | |
Shroud 3 | (2008) | |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | |
Hungry for Your Love | (2009) | |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two | (2010) | |
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | |
Zombie Apocalypse! | (2010) | |
Zombies: The Recent Dead | (2010) | |
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2010) | |
The End of the Line | (2010) | |
Visitants | (2010) | |
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead | (2011) | |
A Book of Horrors | (2011) | |
Swallowed by the Cracks | (2011) | |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | |
The Recent Weird | (2011) | |
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird | (2011) | |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | |
Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected | (2012) | |
Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst | (2012) | |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | |
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | |
Fearie Tales | (2013) | |
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | (2013) | |
Psychomania: Killer Stories | (2013) | |
Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala | (2013) | |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | |
Horrorology | (2015) | |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | |
Dead Letters | (2016) | |
In the Shadow of Frankenstein | (2016) | |
Ten Tall Tales: And Twisted Limericks | (2016) | |
Detours | (2016) | |
In the Footsteps of Dracula | (2017) | |
Best New Horror 28 | (2018) | |
Dark Mirages | (2018) | |
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | |
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night | (2019) | |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven | (2019) | |
Travellers in Darkness | (2020) | |
I AM THE ABYSS | (2020) | |
Best New Horror #30 | (2020) | |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | |
Best New Horror #31 | (2021) | |
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen | (2022) | |
Prisms | (2023) |
Notes: Binary 2 also has stories by Kim Newman. Swallowed by the Cracks also includes stories by S.G. Browne, Gary McMahon and Lee Thomas. The Lonely Dead was also published as The Upright Man. The Ememess collections, all other collections, the novels Only Forward, Spares, One of Us and The Servants and all short stories were written as Michael Marshall Smith. The Straw Men and all standalone novels were written as Michael Marshall.