Michael Marshall Smith Books in Order – Complete List
Michael Marshall Smith is a British bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer best known for his thriller novel The Straw Men, which he wrote under the pseudonym Michael Marshall. This popular book ended up included in the Straw Men trilogy. His books touch on thriller, horror as well as science fiction, many of which received or were nominated for various awards.
Here are the Michael Marshall Smith books in order for books under all his pseudonyms. He writes his thrillers under Michael Marshall.
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Writing as Michael Marshall
Straw Men Books in Publication Order
- The Straw Men, 2002
- The Lonely Dead, 2004 (aka The Upright Man)
- Blood of Angels, 2005
Standalone Novels in Publication Order
- The Intruders, 2007
- Bad Things, 2009
- Killer Move, 2011
- We Are Here, 2013
Writing as Michael Rutger
Anomaly Files Books in Publication Order
- The Anomaly, 2018
- The Possession, 2019
Writing as Michael Marshall Smith
Ememess Collection in Publication Order
- 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
Standalone Novels in Publication Order
- Only Forward, 1994
- Spares, 1996
- One of Us, 1998
- The Servants, 2007 (originally written as M.M. Smith in the UK)
- Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence, 2017
- Time Out, 2024
Short Story Collections in Publication Order
- What You Make It,1999
- Binary 2, 2000, with Kim Newman
- Cat Stories, 2001
- More Tomorrow & Other Stories, 2003
- Everything You Need, 2013
- The Best of Michael Marshall Smith, 2020
Kim Newman Short Story Collections in Publication Order
with Kim Newman
- The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories, 1994
- Famous Monsters, 1995
- Binary 2, 2000
- Unforgivable Stories, 2000
- Dead Travel Fast, 2005
Novellas and Short Stories in Publication Order
- The Vaccinator, 1998
- What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night, 2009
- Substitutions, 2012 (Mammoth Books presents series)
- Diet Hell, 2012
- Hell Hath Enlarged Herself, 2012
- Being Right, 2012
- A Convenient Arrangement, 2012
- The Handover, 2012
- The Man Who Drew Cats, 2012
- Save As…, 2012
- When God Lived In Kentish Town, 2012
- The Seventeenth Kind, 2012
- Autumn, 2012
- Later, 2012
- Missed Connection, 2012
- Two Shot, 2012
- The Dark Land, 2012
- Enough Pizza, 2012
- Everybody Goes, 2012
- Maybe Next Time, 2012
- More Bitter Than Death, 2012
- This Is Now, 2012
- The Fracture, 2012
- Getting Over, 2012
- A Long Walk, For The Last Time, 2012
- Open Doors, 2012
- To Receive Is Better, 2012
- The Gist, 2013
- Cemetery Dance Select: Michael Marshall Smith, 2015
Anthologies in Publication Order
- Darklands, 1987
- Taps and Sighs, 1989
- Dark Voices 2, 1990
- Best New Horror 2, 1991
- Darklands No 1, 1991
- Best New Horror 3, 1992
- Darklands Two, 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
- Touch Wood, 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
- Shadows over Innsmouth, 1994
- The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, 1994
- Seventh Annual Collection, 1994
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection, 1994
- Best New Horror 5, 1994
- Best New Horror 6, 1995
- Dark Terrors, 1995
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection, 1995
- Dark Terrors 2, 1996
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven, 1996
- Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection, 1996
- Twists of the Tale, 1996
- Lethal Kisses, 1996
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection, 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 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eight, 1997
- The Mammoth Book of Dracula, 1997
- Dancing with the Dark, 1997
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection, 1997
- Dark Terrors 4, 1998
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9, 1998
- Binary 2, 1998
- White of the Moon, 1999
- The Grown Ups’ Book Of Books, 1999
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection, 1999
- 999, 1999
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten, 1999
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection, 2000
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven, 2000
- Dark Terrors 5, 2000
- Foursight, 2000
- October Dreams, 2000
- Horrors!, 2001
- Redshift, 2001
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Twelve, 2001
- Tails of Wonder and Imagination, 2001
- Embrace the Mutation, 2002
- Keep Out The Night, 2002
- Dark Terrors 6, 2002
- Gathering the Bones, 2003
- Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection / The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 17th Annual Collection, 2004
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Fifteen, 2004
- The Mammoth Book of New Terror, 2004
- Best New Horror 16, 2005
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Sixteen, 2005
- Elemental / Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology, 2006
- Horror: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, 2006
- Shrouded By Darkness / Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror, 2006
- The British Fantasy Society – a Celebration / The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration, 2006
- Summer Chills, 2007
- The Mammoth Book of Monsters, 2007
- Travellers in Darkness, 2007
- Shroud 3, 2008
- Stories: All-New Tales, 2008
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, 2008
- The Best of Cemetery Dance II, 2008
- By Blood We Live, 2009
- The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men, 2009
- The Dead That Walk, 2009
- Hungry for Your Love, 2009
- Black Wings, 2010
- Tails of Wonder and Imagination, 2010
- The Very Best of Best New Horror, 2010
- Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror / Darkness, 2010
- The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror, 2010
- The End of the Line, 2010
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21, 2010
- Zombie Apocalypse!, 2010
- The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010, 2010
- Zombies: The Recent Dead, 2010
- Visitants, 2010
- Cemetery Dance, 2010
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two, 2010
- A Book of Horrors, 2011
- Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead / Haunts, 2011
- The Monster’s Corner, 2011
- Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, 2011
- Best New Horror 22 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22, 2011
- The Recent Weird, 2011
- New Cthulhu / New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, 2011
- Vampires: The Recent Undead, 2011
- Swallowed by the Cracks, 2011
- The Best British Short Stories 2012, 2012
- The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, 2012
- Monsters in Our Midst / Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst, 2012
- The Unexpected / Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected, 2012
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23, 2012
- Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback, 2012
- Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, 2013
- Hauntings, 2013
- Zombies!, 2013
- Fearie Tales, 2013
- Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny, 2013
- Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, 2013 (edited by Stephen Jones)
- Psycho-Mania! / Psychomania: Killer Stories, 2013
- Mister October, Volume I / Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala, 2013
- Flotsam Fantasique / Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013, 2013
- Dark Duets, 2014
- Best British Horror 2014, 2014
- Fearful Symmetries, 2014
- The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, 2014
- Best New Horror 25 / The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 25, 2014
- Horrorology, 2015
- Darker Terrors / Darker Terrors 7, 2016
- Dead Letters, 2016
- Detours, 2016
- Ten Tall Tales / Ten Tall Tales: And Twisted Limericks, 2016
- In the Shadow of Frankenstein, 2016
- The Best of Subterranean, 2017
- In the Footsteps of Dracula, 2017
- Best New Horror 28, 2018
- Devil and the Deep, 2018
- The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories, 2018
- Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction, 2018
- Dark Mirages, 2018
- The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories, 2019
- The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11 / The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven, 2019
- Ten-Word Tragedies, 2019
- Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night, 2019
- We All Hear Stories in the Dark, 2020
- Best of Best New Horror Volume 1, 2020
- Cursed, 2020
- After Sundown, 2020
- Travellers in Darkness, 2020
- I AM THE ABYSS, 2020
- Best New Horror 30 / Best New Horror #30, 2020
- Prisms, 2021, 2023, appears both as 2021 and 2023; check which is correct for Smith’s content
- The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror, 2021
- The Best of Dark Terrors, 2021
- The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, 2021
- Best New Horror 31 / Best New Horror #31, 2021
- Isolation, 2022
- The Best Horror of the Year Volume 14 / The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen, 2022
- Prisms, 2023
Michael Marshall Smith Biography
British author Michael Marshall Smith was born in Cheshire in 1965 to atheist parents, with his father being an academic. When he was one year old, his family moved to Illinois, US, and Michael lived there for the next six years when he moved to Florida. Overall, growing up, he spent much of his time in various other countries, including the US, nine months in Australia, some travel to Russia, one year in South Africa, and then he moved back to England. All this travel was because his father, an academic, could not find a suitable job at home. Later on, when he was offered a professorship at a London University, they moved back home.
As a child he attended school in Essex, then he attended Cambridge university where he got his degree in Philosophy and Social and Political Science.
During his highschool years, he studied classical music, played the piano, the cello and church organ, while later one he started playing the electric guitar, right until after his university years.
During his teen years, he wrote several short stories, however it was not well after university that he decided to follow a career in writing stories. He published his first novel, Only Forward, in 1994, and it was a major success, earning the author two awards, the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in 1995 and the Philip K. Dick Award in 2000.
As to his repeated change of aliases and pseudonyms, originally he wrote his first horror and dark/twisted stories under his full name, Michael Marshall Smith. However, when he wrote The Straw Men, due to the very different genre and writing style from before, his US publisher recommended that he dropped the Smith from his name especially since another author with the name Martin J. Smith just came out with a similar titled novel, Strawman. To avoid confusion and mix-up, he wrote this new thriller series as Michael Marshall. The novel started the Straw Men trilogy which ended up becoming very popular as well.
Then when he wrote a short story called The Servants, he changed his pseudonym for this book in the UK to M. M. Smith as the short novel was very different again from anything he’d written before. The US book edition still published it under his full name, however, so at the moment there are very few books that still have this shortened alias on them.
Finally, Michael also wrote The Anomaly Files series under yet another name, Michael Rutger.
He took part in co-writing two radio comedy series and a pilot TV series, and is at the moment working on screenplays for two feature films along with the BBC adaptation of Clive Barker’s Weaveworld.
Michael Marshall Smith currently lives with his wife and his son and cats in Santa Cruz, California.
Michael Marshall Smith Books Adapations – Other Media
- Cruise of the Gods – a 2002 comedy drama based on an original screenplay by the author
- Dare to Believe – a 2002-2004 sketch TV series that included writing by the author as well
- Later – a 2011 short film based on the author’s same-titled story
- The Seventeenth Kind – a 2014 science-fiction comedy short film based on a short story
- Unbelief – a 2015 short film based on the short story with the same title
- Intruders – TV series based on his 2007 novel The Intruders. A BBC America / UK joint production, it premiered in 2017 and it aired for 8 episodes, after which it was cancelled.
- From Life – a 2018 short film based on an original story
- Memento Mori – a 2021 short film based on an original short story created for the film
- The novel Spares had its rights purchased by DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg’s studio), however its rights lapsed, and no film was made.
Michael Marshall Smith Awards and Nominations
1991
- The Man Who Drew Cats won the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 1991.
- Michael Marshall Smith won the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer in 1991.
1992
- The Dark Land won the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 1992.
1995
- Only Forward won the British Fantasy Award (August Derleth Award) for Best Novel in 1995.
- To Receive Is Better was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 1995.
- To Receive Is Better was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Short Story category in 1995.
1996
- More Tomorrow won the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 1996.
- More Tomorrow was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Novella category in 1996.
1997
- Spares was nominated for the British Fantasy Award (August Derleth Award) for Best Novel in 1997.
- Hell Hath Enlarged Herself was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 1997.
- Foreign Bodies was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 1997.
- Hell Hath Enlarged Herself was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Novella category in 1997.
1999
- One of Us was nominated for the British Fantasy Award (August Derleth Award) for Best Novel in 1999.
- Michael Marshall Smith was nominated for the International Horror Guild Award in the Short Fiction category in 1999.
- Michael Marshall Smith was nominated for the International Horror Guild Award in the Collection category in 1999.
2000
- Only Forward won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2000.
- What You Make It was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2000.
2001
- The Handover was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 2001.
2004
- More Tomorrow & Other Stories was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2004.
- More Tomorrow & Other Stories was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2004.
2008
- The Servants was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2008.
- The Servants was nominated for the British Fantasy Award (August Derleth Award) for Best Novel in 2008.
2010
- What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night won the British Fantasy Award in the Short Fiction category in 2010.
2012
- Sad, Dark Thing was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Short Story category in 2012.
2014
- Everything You Need was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection in 2014.
2021
- We All Hear Stories in the Dark was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2021.
- We All Hear Stories in the Dark was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2021.