Michael Marshall Smith

Michael Marshall Smith is an English author of fiction, bestselling novelist, and screenwriter. He was born in Cheshire in 1965. His first novel was titled Only Forward and was the winner of two big literary awards.

The best place to start is the Kim Newman Short Story Collections series, the earliest of Michael Marshall Smith's multi-book series: it opens with The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories (1994) and runs to 8 books across 1994–2010, ending with Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (2010). Michael Marshall Smith's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Michael Marshall Smith has 221 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2026. 83 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Ememess Collections series with 9 books — and 138 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Michael Marshall Smith's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Kim Newman Short Story Collections (1994–2010, 8 books), Straw Men (2002–2005, 3 books) and Ememess Collections (2012, 9 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Michael Marshall Smith's 221 books into 9 named series and 138 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ememess Collections (9 books, 2012); Kim Newman Short Story Collections (8 books, 1994–2010); The Lovecraft Squad (4 books, 2017–2020); Straw Men (3 books, 2002–2005); Anomaly Files (2 books, 2018–2019), plus 4 further series.