Michael Marshall Smith was born and raised -- itinerantly -- in the USA and the UK: his parents are academics. He has had two radio comedy series and a pilot TV series, and is currently working on screenplays for two feature films and the BBC adaptation of Clive Barker's Weaveworld. Only Forward was his first novel, Spares his second. He is distressingly young.
Genres: Horror
Series
Ememess Collection
1. Ememess Issue 1 (2012)
2. Ememess Issue 2 (2012)
3. Ememess Issue 3 (2012)
4. Ememess Issue 4 (2012)
5. Ememess issue 5 (2012)
6. Ememess Issue 6 (2012)
7. Ememess issue 7 (2012)
8. Ememess Issue 8 (2012)
9. Ememess Issue 9 (2012)
1. Ememess Issue 1 (2012)
2. Ememess Issue 2 (2012)
3. Ememess Issue 3 (2012)
4. Ememess Issue 4 (2012)
5. Ememess issue 5 (2012)
6. Ememess Issue 6 (2012)
7. Ememess issue 7 (2012)
8. Ememess Issue 8 (2012)
9. Ememess Issue 9 (2012)
Novels
Only Forward (1994)
Spares (1996)
One of Us (1998)
The Servants (2007)
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence (2017)
Spares (1996)
One of Us (1998)
The Servants (2007)
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence (2017)
Collections
What You Make It (1999)
Binary 2 (2000) (with Kim Newman)
More Tomorrow (2003)
What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night (2009)
Swallowed By The Cracks (2011) (with S G Browne, Gary McMahon and Lee Thomas)
Everything You Need (2013)
We All Hear Stories in the Dark (2020) (with Steven Moffat, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter and Lisa Tuttle)
The Best of Michael Marshall Smith (2020)
Binary 2 (2000) (with Kim Newman)
More Tomorrow (2003)
What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night (2009)
Swallowed By The Cracks (2011) (with S G Browne, Gary McMahon and Lee Thomas)
Everything You Need (2013)
We All Hear Stories in the Dark (2020) (with Steven Moffat, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter and Lisa Tuttle)
The Best of Michael Marshall Smith (2020)
Chapbooks
Novellas
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)
Substitutions (2012)
The Gist (2013)
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)
Substitutions (2012)
The Gist (2013)
Anthologies containing stories by Michael Marshall Smith
Dark Voices 2 (1990)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Dark Voices 4 (1992)
Dark Voices 5 (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Dark Voices 6 (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994)
The Best New Horror 5 (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Dark Terrors (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
Lethal Kisses (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
Dark of the Night (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eight (1997)
Scaremongers (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
White of the Moon (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Foursight (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Dark Voices 4 (1992)
Dark Voices 5 (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Dark Voices 6 (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994)
The Best New Horror 5 (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Dark Terrors (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
Lethal Kisses (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
Dark of the Night (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eight (1997)
Scaremongers (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
White of the Moon (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Foursight (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
Short stories
Victoria's Secret | |||
The Dark Land (1988) | |||
The Man Who Drew Cats (1988) | |||
Always (1991) | |||
More Bitter Than Death (1991) | |||
Everybody Goes (1992) | |||
The Fracture (1992) | |||
Later (1992) | |||
The Owner (1992) | |||
A Time for Waiting (1992) | |||
The Truth Game (1993) | |||
Foreign Bodies (1994) | |||
A Place to Stay (1994) | |||
Rain Falls (1994) | |||
To Receive Is Better (1994) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
To See the Sea (1994) | |||
More Tomorrow [short story] (1995) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
Sorted (1995) | |||
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself (1996) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
Not Waving (1996) | |||
Save As... (1996) | |||
When God Lived In Kentish Town (1996) | |||
Dear Alison (1997) | |||
Different Now (1997) | |||
Mr Cat (1997) | |||
Walking Wounded (1997) | |||
Diet Hell (1998) | |||
What You Make It [short story] (1998) | |||
The Book of Irrational Numbers (1999) | |||
The Vaccinator [short story] (1999) | |||
Welcome (1999) | British Fantasy Society (nominee) | ||
The Handover (2000) |
Awards
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Books about Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith recommends

White Devils (2004)
Paul McAuley
"Stunning proof that McAuley now leads the world in science thrillers. Not just a gripping, insightful novel, but a genuinely important book. Jaw-droppingly good."

The Shadow of the Soul (2011)
(Dog-Faced Gods, book 2)
Sarah Pinborough
"A pitch black thriller with a fierce emotional payload - gritty, authentic and compeling."

The Many (2016)
Wyl Menmuir
"Ominous, subtle and beautiful â an intensely resonant trawling of sufferingâs deep currents."

Hydra (2017)
(Six Stories, book 2)
Matt Wesolowski
"A complex and subtle mystery, unfolding like dark origami to reveal the black heart inside."

Criterium (2020)
Tyler Jones
"A truly excellent novella. The prose is perfect, the story beautifully balanced, and the atmosphere is so strong it feels like you could cut it with a knife. Haunting, uncanny and profound: the strongest and most compelling new voice that I've read in a very long time."
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