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Updated 2026-07-11 / 127 books / 12 series
British author Michael Marshall Smith is best known for his acclaimed thriller *The Straw Men* and the *Spares* series. His novels have sold millions worldwide and won the Philip K. Dick Award. This page lists Michael Marshall Smith’s books in order, including both chronological and series reading order.
Books by Michael Marshall Smith in Publication Order
1990
The Man Who Drew Cats
POoSS / 1
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1991
The Dark Land
POoSS / 2
Buy
1994
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 1
Buy
1994
Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones)
POoSOIB / 1
Buy
1994
Only Forward(As: Michael Marshall)
POoSN / 1
Buy
1994
To Receive Is Better
POoSS / 3
Buy
1995
Famous Monsters(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 2
Buy
1995
More Tomorrow
POoSS / 4
Buy
1996
Spares
POoSN / 2
Buy
1996
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself
POoSS / 5
Buy
1996
Foreign Bodies
POoSS / 6
Buy
1998
One of Us
POoSN / 3
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1998
Binary 2
POoKNSSC / 3
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1999
What You Make It
POoSSC / 1
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1999
The Vaccinator
POoSS / 7
Buy
2000
Unforgivable Stories(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 4
Buy
2000
Where The Bodies Are Buried(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 5
Buy
2000
The Handover
POoSS / 8
Buy
2001
Cat Stories
POoSSC / 2
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2002
The Straw Men
POoSMB / 1
Buy
2003
More Tomorrow and Other Stories
POoSSC / 3
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2004
The Upright Man / The Lonely Dead
POoSMB / 2
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2005
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones)
POoSOIB / 2
Buy
2005
Blood of Angels
POoSMB / 3
Buy
2005
Dead Travel Fast(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 6
Buy
2007
The Intruders(As: Michael Marshall)
POoSN / 4
Buy
2007
The Servants
POoSN / 5
Buy
2007
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 7
Buy
2009
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
POoBHotYB / 1
Buy
2009
Bad Things(As: Michael Marshall)
POoSN / 6
Buy
2009
What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night
POoSS / 9
Buy
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 1
Buy
2010
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
POoBHotYB / 2
Buy
2010
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club(By: Kim Newman)
POoKNSSC / 8
Buy
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 2
Buy
2011
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
POoBHotYB / 3
Buy
2011
Killer Move(As: Michael Marshall)
POoSN / 7
Buy
2011
Sad, Dark Thing
POoSS / 10
Buy
2012
Ememess, Issue 1
POoEC / 1
Buy
2012
Ememess, Issue 2
POoEC / 2
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2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 3
Buy
2012
Ememess, Issue 3
POoEC / 3
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2012
Ememess, Issue 4
POoEC / 4
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2012
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
POoBHotYB / 4
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2012
Ememess, Issue 5
POoEC / 5
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2012
Ememess, Issue 6
POoEC / 6
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2012
Ememess, Issue 7
POoEC / 7
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2012
Ememess, Issue 8
POoEC / 8
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2012
We Are Here(As: Michael Marshall, With: Benjamin Kuntzer)
POoSN / 8
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2012
Ememess, Issue 9
POoEC / 9
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2012
Diet Hell
POoSS / 11
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2012
A Convenient Arrangement
POoSS / 12
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2012
Save As...
POoSS / 13
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2012
Being Right
POoSS / 14
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2012
When God Lived In Kentish Town
POoSS / 15
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2012
Missed Connection
POoSS / 16
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2012
The Seventeenth Kind
POoSS / 17
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2012
Autumn
POoSS / 18
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2012
Later
POoSS / 19
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2012
Two Shot
POoSS / 20
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2012
Enough Pizza
POoSS / 21
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2012
More Bitter Than Death
POoSS / 22
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2012
Maybe Next Time
POoSS / 23
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2012
Everybody Goes
POoSS / 24
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2012
The Fracture
POoSS / 25
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2012
Getting Over
POoSS / 26
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2012
A Long Walk, For The Last Time
POoSS / 27
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2012
Open Doors
POoSS / 28
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2012
Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions
POoSS / 29
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2013
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
POoSOIB / 3
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2013
Everything You Need
POoSSC / 4
Buy
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 4
Buy
2013
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
POoBHotYB / 5
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2013
The Gist
POoSS / 30
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2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 5
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2014
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
POoBHotYB / 6
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Bev Vincent(By: Bev Vincent)
POoCDSB / 1
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton(By: Lisa Morton)
POoCDSB / 2
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Jeff Strand(By: Jeff Strand)
POoCDSB / 3
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren(By: Kaaron Warren)
POoCDSB / 4
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Tuttle(By: Lisa Tuttle)
POoCDSB / 5
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Terry Dowling(By: Terry Dowling)
POoCDSB / 6
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2015
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 6
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2015
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
POoBHotYB / 7
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael Marshall Smith
POoCDSB / 7
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: John R. Little(By: John R. Little)
POoCDSB / 8
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Lee Thomas(By: Lee Thomas)
POoCDSB / 9
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Peter Atkins(By: Peter Atkins)
POoCDSB / 10
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2015
Cemetery Dance Select: Kealan Patrick Burke(By: Kealan Patrick Burke)
POoCDSB / 11
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2016
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 7
Buy
2016
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
POoBHotYB / 8
Buy
2016
Cemetery Dance Select: Ed Gorman(By: Ed Gorman)
POoCDSB / 12
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2016
Cemetery Dance Select: Simon Clark(By: Simon Clark)
POoCDSB / 13
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2016
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael McBride(By: Michael McBride)
POoCDSB / 14
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2017
All Hallows Horror(By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert)
POoTLSB / 1
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2017
Waiting
POoTLSB / 2
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2017
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 8
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2017
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
POoBHotYB / 9
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2017
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
POoSN / 9
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2017
Cemetery Dance Select: Poppy Z. Brite(By: Poppy Brite)
POoCDSB / 15
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2017
Cemetery Dance Select: Christopher Conlon(By: Christopher Conlon)
POoCDSB / 16
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2017
Cemetery Dance Select: Gene O'Neill(By: Gene O'Neill)
POoCDSB / 17
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2017
Cemetery Dance Select: Keith Minnion(By: Keith Minnion)
POoCDSB / 18
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2017
Cemetery Dance Select: Tim Waggoner(By: Tim Waggoner)
POoCDSB / 19
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2018
The Anomaly
POoAFB / 1
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2018
Dreaming
POoTLSB / 3
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2018
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 9
Buy
2018
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
POoBHotYB / 10
Buy
2018
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
POoBHotYB / 11
Buy
2019
The Possession
POoAFB / 2
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2019
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
POoBHotYB / 12
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2020
Rising(By: Stephen Jones)
POoTLSB / 4
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2020
The Best of Michael Marshall Smith
POoSSC / 5
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2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 10
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2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
POoTYBDF&HB / 11
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2020
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
POoBHotYB / 13
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2020
Cemetery Dance Select: Rick Hautala(By: Rick Hautala)
POoCDSB / 20
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2021
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
POoTYBDF&HB / 12
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2021
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
POoBHotYB / 14
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2022
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
POoTYBDF&HB / 13
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2022
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
POoBHotYB / 15
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2023
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
POoTYBDF&HB / 14
Buy
2024
Time Out
POoSN / 10
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2024
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
POoTYBDF&HB / 15
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2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
POoBHotYB / 16
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2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
POoBHotYB / 17
Buy
2025
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
POoBHotYB / 18
Buy
Complete Michael Marshall Smith Series Reading Order /
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01
All Hallows Horror(By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert)
2017
Buy
04
Rising(By: Stephen Jones)
2020
Buy
01
Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones)
1994
Buy
02
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones)
2005
Buy
03
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
2013
Buy
02
The Possession
2019
Buy
01
The Man Who Drew Cats
1990
Buy
02
The Dark Land
1991
Buy
03
To Receive Is Better
1994
Buy
04
More Tomorrow
1995
Buy
05
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself
1996
Buy
06
Foreign Bodies
1996
Buy
07
The Vaccinator
1999
Buy
09
What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night
2009
Buy
10
Sad, Dark Thing
2011
Buy
12
A Convenient Arrangement
2012
Buy
15
When God Lived In Kentish Town
2012
Buy
16
Missed Connection
2012
Buy
17
The Seventeenth Kind
2012
Buy
22
More Bitter Than Death
2012
Buy
23
Maybe Next Time
2012
Buy
24
Everybody Goes
2012
Buy
27
A Long Walk, For The Last Time
2012
Buy
29
Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions
2012
Buy
01
What You Make It
1999
Buy
03
More Tomorrow and Other Stories
2003
Buy
04
Everything You Need
2013
Buy
05
The Best of Michael Marshall Smith
2020
Buy
01
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
2009
Buy
02
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
Buy
03
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
Buy
04
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
2012
Buy
05
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
2013
Buy
06
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
2014
Buy
07
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
Buy
08
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
2016
Buy
09
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
Buy
10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
2018
Buy
11
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
2018
Buy
12
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
Buy
13
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
Buy
14
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
2021
Buy
15
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
Buy
16
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
2024
Buy
17
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
2024
Buy
18
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
2025
Buy
01
The Straw Men
2002
Buy
02
The Upright Man / The Lonely Dead
2004
Buy
03
Blood of Angels
2005
Buy
01
Cemetery Dance Select: Bev Vincent(By: Bev Vincent)
2015
Buy
02
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton(By: Lisa Morton)
2015
Buy
03
Cemetery Dance Select: Jeff Strand(By: Jeff Strand)
2015
Buy
04
Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren(By: Kaaron Warren)
2015
Buy
05
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Tuttle(By: Lisa Tuttle)
2015
Buy
06
Cemetery Dance Select: Terry Dowling(By: Terry Dowling)
2015
Buy
07
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael Marshall Smith
2015
Buy
08
Cemetery Dance Select: John R. Little(By: John R. Little)
2015
Buy
09
Cemetery Dance Select: Lee Thomas(By: Lee Thomas)
2015
Buy
10
Cemetery Dance Select: Peter Atkins(By: Peter Atkins)
2015
Buy
11
Cemetery Dance Select: Kealan Patrick Burke(By: Kealan Patrick Burke)
2015
Buy
12
Cemetery Dance Select: Ed Gorman(By: Ed Gorman)
2016
Buy
13
Cemetery Dance Select: Simon Clark(By: Simon Clark)
2016
Buy
14
Cemetery Dance Select: Michael McBride(By: Michael McBride)
2016
Buy
15
Cemetery Dance Select: Poppy Z. Brite(By: Poppy Brite)
2017
Buy
16
Cemetery Dance Select: Christopher Conlon(By: Christopher Conlon)
2017
Buy
17
Cemetery Dance Select: Gene O'Neill(By: Gene O'Neill)
2017
Buy
18
Cemetery Dance Select: Keith Minnion(By: Keith Minnion)
2017
Buy
19
Cemetery Dance Select: Tim Waggoner(By: Tim Waggoner)
2017
Buy
20
Cemetery Dance Select: Rick Hautala(By: Rick Hautala)
2020
Buy
01
Ememess, Issue 1
2012
Buy
02
Ememess, Issue 2
2012
Buy
03
Ememess, Issue 3
2012
Buy
04
Ememess, Issue 4
2012
Buy
05
Ememess, Issue 5
2012
Buy
06
Ememess, Issue 6
2012
Buy
07
Ememess, Issue 7
2012
Buy
08
Ememess, Issue 8
2012
Buy
09
Ememess, Issue 9
2012
Buy
01
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories(By: Kim Newman)
1994
Buy
02
Famous Monsters(By: Kim Newman)
1995
Buy
04
Unforgivable Stories(By: Kim Newman)
2000
Buy
05
Where The Bodies Are Buried(By: Kim Newman)
2000
Buy
06
Dead Travel Fast(By: Kim Newman)
2005
Buy
07
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club(By: Kim Newman)
2007
Buy
08
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club(By: Kim Newman)
2010
Buy
01
Only Forward(As: Michael Marshall)
1994
Buy
04
The Intruders(As: Michael Marshall)
2007
Buy
06
Bad Things(As: Michael Marshall)
2009
Buy
07
Killer Move(As: Michael Marshall)
2011
Buy
08
We Are Here(As: Michael Marshall, With: Benjamin Kuntzer)
2012
Buy
09
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
2017
Buy
01
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
Buy
02
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
Buy
03
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
Buy
04
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
Buy
05
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
Buy
06
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
2015
Buy
07
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
2016
Buy
08
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
2017
Buy
09
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
2018
Buy
10
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
2020
Buy
11
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
2020
Buy
12
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
2021
Buy
13
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
2022
Buy
14
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
2023
Buy
15
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
2024
Buy
Where to start with Michael Marshall Smith
What is the best order to read Michael Marshall Smith books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.
Are standalone books and series both included?
Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are
broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
Source note: Sequencebooks organizes author, book, and series records from its catalog data.
Publication years and series order are shown when available.