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Michael Marshall Smith Books in Order
Michael Marshall Smith is a highly acclaimed novelist and screenwriter, celebrated for his gripping and thought-provoking works. A recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the August Derleth and Philip K. Dick awards, for his debut novel, Only Forward. His novels, Spares and One of Us, have been optioned for film by prominent studios, DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, solidifying his influence in the industry. As the author of the international bestselling Straw Men trilogy, comprising The Straw Men, The Lonely Dead, and Blood of Angels, Smith has captivated readers worldwide. His more recent novels, The Intruders, Bad Things, and Killer Move, further showcase his versatility and mastery of the craft. Smith's exceptional short fiction has earned him four BFS Awards, and his collected stories in What You Make It and More Tomorrow and Other Stories, including the International Horror Guild Award-winning volume, have cemented his reputation as a master of the genre. Michael Marshall Smith resides in Santa Cruz, California with his loved ones.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Michael Marshall Smith's book series? Michael Marshall Smith has written 8 book series. The most notable is the Anomaly Files series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Michael Marshall Smith
- #1
The Anomaly(2018) - #2
The Possession(2019)
- #1
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One(2009) - #2
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two(2010) - #3
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three(2011) - #4
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four(2012) - #5
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five(2013) - #6
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six(2014) - #7
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven(2015) - #8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight(2016) - #9
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine(2017) - #10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten(2018) - #11
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction(2018) - #12
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven(2019) - #13
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve(2020) - #14
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen(2021) - #15
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen(2022) - #16
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen(2024) - #17
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen(2024) - #18
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen(2025) - #19
Best New Horror 2(1991) - #20
Darklands No 1(1991) - #21
Best New Horror 3(1992) - #22
The Mammoth Book of Vampires(1992) - #23The Giant Book of Zombies(1993)
- #24
The Giant Book of Best New Horror(1993) - #25
The Mammoth Book of Zombies(1993) - #26
Dark Voices 6(1994) - #27
The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural(1994) - #28
The Giant Book of Terror(1994) - #29
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves(1994) - #30
Seventh Annual Collection(1994) - #31
Best New Horror 5(1994) - #32
Best New Horror 6(1995) - #33
Dark Terrors(1995) - #34
Dark Terrors 2(1996) - #35
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7(1996) - #36
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection(1996) - #37
Lethal Kisses(1996) - #38
Secret City(1997) - #39
Dark of the Night(1997) - #40Dark Terrors 3(1997)
- #41
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares(1997) - #42
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8(1997) - #43
The Mammoth Book of Dracula(1997) - #44
Dark Terrors 4(1998) - #45
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9(1998) - #46
Binary 2(1998) - #47
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10(1999) - #48
Dark Terrors 5(2000) - #49
Foursight(2000) - #50
October Dreams(2000) - #51
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11(2000) - #52
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12(2001) - #53
Tails of Wonder and Imagination(2001) - #54
Keep Out The Night(2002) - #55
Dark Terrors 6(2002) - #56The Mammoth Book of New Terror(2004)
- #57
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection(2004) - #58
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15(2004) - #59
Best New Horror 16(2005) - #60
Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror(2006) - #61
The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration(2006) - #62
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology(2006) - #63
Summer Chills(2007) - #64
The Mammoth Book of Monsters(2007) - #65
Shroud 3(2008) - #66
Best New Horror 19(2008) - #67
The Best of Cemetery Dance II(2008) - #68
The Dead That Walk(2009) - #69
Hungry for Your Love(2009) - #70
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror(2010) - #71
Best New Horror 21(2010) - #72
Zombie Apocalypse!(2010) - #73Zombies: The Recent Dead(2010)
- #74
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010) - #75
The End of the Line(2010) - #76
Visitants(2010) - #77
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead(2011) - #78
A Book of Horrors(2011) - #79
Swallowed by the Cracks(2011) - #80
Best New Horror 22(2011) - #81
The Recent Weird(2011) - #82
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird(2011) - #83
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror(2012) - #84
Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected(2012) - #85
Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst(2012) - #86
Best New Horror 23(2012) - #87
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth(2013) - #88
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny(2013) - #89
Fearie Tales(2013) - #90
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013(2013) - #91
Psychomania: Killer Stories(2013) - #92
Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala(2013) - #93Best New Horror 25(2014)
- #94
Horrorology(2015) - #95
Darker Terrors 7(2016) - #96
Dead Letters(2016) - #97
In the Shadow of Frankenstein(2016) - #98
Ten Tall Tales: And Twisted Limericks(2016) - #99
Detours(2016) - #100
In the Footsteps of Dracula(2017) - #101
Best New Horror 28(2018) - #102
Dark Mirages(2018) - #103
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories(2019) - #104
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night(2019) - #105
Travellers in Darkness(2020) - #106
I AM THE ABYSS(2020) - #107
Best New Horror #30(2020) - #108
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror(2021) - #109
Best New Horror #31(2021) - #110
Prisms(2023)
- #1
Cemetery Dance Select: Bev Vincent (By: Bev Vincent)(2015) - #2
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton (By: Lisa Morton)(2015) - #3
Cemetery Dance Select: Jeff Strand (By: Jeff Strand)(2015) - #4
Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren (By: Kaaron Warren)(2015) - #5
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Tuttle (By: Lisa Tuttle)(2015) - #6
Cemetery Dance Select: Terry Dowling (By: Terry Dowling)(2015) - #7
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael Marshall Smith(2015) - #8
Cemetery Dance Select: John R. Little (By: John R. Little)(2015) - #9
Cemetery Dance Select: Lee Thomas (By: Lee Thomas)(2015) - #10
Cemetery Dance Select: Peter Atkins (By: Peter Atkins)(2015) - #11
Cemetery Dance Select: Kealan Patrick Burke (By: Kealan Patrick Burke)(2015) - #12
Cemetery Dance Select: Ed Gorman (By: Ed Gorman)(2016) - #13
Cemetery Dance Select: Simon Clark (By: Simon Clark)(2016) - #14
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael McBride (By: Michael McBride)(2016) - #15
Cemetery Dance Select: Poppy Z. Brite (By: Poppy Brite)(2017) - #16
Cemetery Dance Select: Christopher Conlon (By: Christopher Conlon)(2017) - #17
Cemetery Dance Select: Gene O'Neill (By: Gene O'Neill)(2017) - #18
Cemetery Dance Select: Keith Minnion (By: Keith Minnion)(2017) - #19
Cemetery Dance Select: Tim Waggoner (By: Tim Waggoner)(2017) - #20
Cemetery Dance Select: Rick Hautala (By: Rick Hautala)(2020) - #21
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories (By: Kim Newman)(1994) - #22
Famous Monsters (By: Kim Newman)(1995) - #23Binary 2(1998)
- #24
Unforgivable Stories (By: Kim Newman)(2000) - #25
Where The Bodies Are Buried (By: Kim Newman)(2000) - #26
Dead Travel Fast (By: Kim Newman)(2005) - #27
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (By: Kim Newman)(2007) - #28
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (By: Kim Newman)(2010)
- #1
Shadows Over Innsmouth (By: Stephen Jones)(1994) - #2
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones)(2005) - #3Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth(2013)
- #1
Only Forward (As: Michael Marshall)(1994) - #2Spares(1996)
- #3One of Us(1998)
- #4
The Intruders (As: Michael Marshall)(2007) - #5
The Servants(2007) - #6
Bad Things (As: Michael Marshall)(2009) - #7
Killer Move (As: Michael Marshall)(2011) - #8
We Are Here (As: Michael Marshall, With: Benjamin Kuntzer)(2012) - #9Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence(2017)
- #10
Time Out(2024) - #11The Man Who Drew Cats(1990)
- #12
The Dark Land(1991) - #13
To Receive Is Better(1994) - #14
More Tomorrow(1995) - #15
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself(1996) - #16Foreign Bodies(1996)
- #17The Vaccinator(1999)
- #18The Handover(2000)
- #19
What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night(2009) - #20
Sad, Dark Thing(2011) - #21
Diet Hell(2012) - #22
A Convenient Arrangement(2012) - #23
Save As...(2012) - #24
Being Right(2012) - #25
When God Lived In Kentish Town(2012) - #26
Missed Connection(2012) - #27
The Seventeenth Kind(2012) - #28
Autumn(2012) - #29
Later(2012) - #30
Two Shot(2012) - #31
Enough Pizza(2012) - #32
More Bitter Than Death(2012) - #33
Maybe Next Time(2012) - #34
Everybody Goes(2012) - #35
The Fracture(2012) - #36
Getting Over(2012) - #37
A Long Walk, For The Last Time(2012) - #38
Open Doors(2012) - #39
Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions(2012) - #40
The Gist(2013) - #41
What You Make It(1999) - #42
Cat Stories(2001) - #43
More Tomorrow and Other Stories(2003) - #44
Everything You Need(2013) - #45
The Best of Michael Marshall Smith(2020)
- #1
The Straw Men(2002) - #2
The Upright Man / The Lonely Dead(2004) - #3
Blood of Angels(2005) - #4
Ememess, Issue 1(2012) - #5
Ememess, Issue 2(2012) - #6
Ememess, Issue 3(2012) - #7
Ememess, Issue 4(2012) - #8
Ememess, Issue 5(2012) - #9
Ememess, Issue 6(2012) - #10
Ememess, Issue 7(2012) - #11
Ememess, Issue 8(2012) - #12
Ememess, Issue 9(2012)
- #1
All Hallows Horror (By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert)(2017) - #2
Waiting(2017) - #3
Dreaming(2018) - #4
Rising (By: Stephen Jones)(2020)
- #1The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010)
- #2
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition(2011) - #3
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition(2012) - #4
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition(2013) - #5
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition(2014) - #6
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition(2015) - #7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition(2016) - #8
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition(2017) - #9
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition(2018) - #10
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition(2020) - #11
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1(2020) - #12
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2(2021) - #13
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3(2022) - #14
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4(2023) - #15
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5(2024) - #16
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5(2024)
About Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith is a highly acclaimed novelist and screenwriter, celebrated for his gripping and thought-provoking works. A recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the August Derleth and Philip K. Dick awards, for his debut novel, Only Forward. His novels, Spares and One of Us, have been optioned for film by prominent studios, DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, solidifying his influence in the industry. As the author of the international bestselling Straw Men trilogy, comprising The Straw Men, The Lonely Dead, and Blood of Angels, Smith has captivated readers worldwide. His more recent novels, The Intruders, Bad Things, and Killer Move, further showcase his versatility and mastery of the craft. Smith's exceptional short fiction has earned him four BFS Awards, and his collected stories in What You Make It and More Tomorrow and Other Stories, including the International Horror Guild Award-winning volume, have cemented his reputation as a master of the genre. Michael Marshall Smith resides in Santa Cruz, California with his loved ones.
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