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ⓘ About Nick Mamatas
Nick funded his writing career early on by writing non-fiction and by producing term papers for college students, which later got him some notoriety. This is after he described this experience in an essay he wrote for The Smart Set, Drexel University’s online magazine, called “The Term Paper Artist”. Nick’s work has appeared places such as: In These Times, Razor, Village Voice, Clamor, Spex, and Polyphony. His work has also appeared in many Ben Bella Books and Disinformation anthologies, as well as books like Before & After: Stories from New York, Corpse Blossoms, Short and Sweet, and Poe’s Lighthouse. Nick’s debut novel, called “Move Under Ground”, was released in the year 2004. His work is from the genres of mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
All Book Series by Nick Mamatas
Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2025
The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2008 Co-authored · Tim Pratt
3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once
Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 2003
The People’s Republic of Everything
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2018
Quotes Every Man Should Know
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2013
All You Need Is Kill
Single-title series · published 2014 Co-authored · Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Unidentified Funny Objects
Series opener · book 1 of 13 · published 2012 Anthology · Mike Resnick,Lavie Tidhar,Jody Lynn Nye,Michael Kurland,Marko Kloos,Ken Liu,Jamie Lackey,Jake Kerr,Alex Shvartsman,Jennifer Pelland,Charity Tahmaseb,Deborah Walker,Don Sakers,Chuck Rothman,Zach Shephard,Sergei Lukyanenko,Bruce Golden,Stephanie Burgis,Stephen D. Rogers,Scott Almes,Leah Cypess,Siobhan Gallagher,Ferrett Steinmetz,James Beamon,Jeff Stehman,Anatoly Belilovsky,Matt Mikalatos,Nathaniel Lee,K.G. Jewell,David Sklar
Unidentified Funny Objects 2
Book 2 of 13 · published 2013 Anthology · Robert Silverberg,Mike Resnick,Fran Wilde,Jim C. Hines,Esther M. Friesner,Jody Lynn Nye,Tim Pratt,Ken Liu,Heather Lindsley,Alex Shvartsman,Josh Vogt,Michelle Ann King,Konstantine Paradias,J.W. Alden,Desmond Warzel,Wade Albert White,James Beamon,Matt Mikalatos,M.C.A. Hogarth,K.G. Jewell
Unidentified Funny Objects 3
Book 3 of 13 · published 2014 Anthology · Robert Silverberg,Mike Resnick,Kevin J. Anderson,Jim C. Hines,Jody Lynn Nye,Karen Haber,Piers Anthony,Tim Pratt,Cat Rambo,Caroline M. Yoachim,Sarah Pinsker,Tina Connolly,Alex Shvartsman,Josh Vogt,Guy Anthony De Marco,Gini Koch,Jeremy R. Butler,Oliver Buckram,Krystal Claxton,Camille Griep,James Beamon,Matt Mikalatos,Nathaniel Lee,James A. Miller,Jakob Drud
Funny Science Fiction
Book 4 of 13 · published 2015 Anthology · Mike Resnick,Lavie Tidhar,Tim Pratt,Ken Liu,Lawrence M. Schoen,Cat Rambo,Sarah Pinsker,Tina Connolly,Mike Rimar,Shaenon K. Garrity,Alex Shvartsman,Brian Trent,Dantzel Cherry,Desmond Warzel,Oliver Buckram,James Beamon,Anatoly Belilovsky,Leonard Richardson
Unidentified Funny Objects 4
Book 5 of 13 · published 2015 Anthology · George R.R. Martin,Mike Resnick,Neil Gaiman,Esther M. Friesner,Jody Lynn Nye,Karen Haber,Piers Anthony,Tim Pratt,Ian Creasey,Caroline M. Yoachim,Tina Connolly,Anaea Lay,Alex Shvartsman,Tina Gower,Zach Shephard,Gini Koch,Michael J. Martinez,Oliver Buckram,Andrew Kaye,Brent C. Smith,Laura Pearlman,Eric Kaplan,James Aquilone,Jonathan Ems
Unidentified Funny Objects 5
Book 7 of 13 · published 2016 Anthology · Mike Resnick,Esther M. Friesner,Jody Lynn Nye,Laura Resnick,David Gerrold,Tim Pratt,Caroline M. Yoachim,Shaenon K. Garrity,Paul R. Hardy,Alex Shvartsman,Zach Shephard,Daniel J. Davis,Gini Koch,Bill Ferris,James Wesley Rogers,Nathan Hillstrom,Mitchell Shanklin,Shane Halbach,Fred Stesney
Funny Horror
Book 8 of 13 · published 2017 Anthology · Mike Resnick,Esther M. Friesner,Darrell Schweitzer,Jody Lynn Nye,Laura Resnick,Lucy A. Snyder,Amanda C. Davis,Eric James Stone,Alex Shvartsman,Julia S. Mandala,Barbara A. Barnett,Scott Alexander
Unidentified Funny Objects 6
Book 9 of 13 · published 2017 Anthology · Mike Resnick,Jack Campbell,Jim C. Hines,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Alan Dean Foster,Esther M. Friesner,Jody Lynn Nye,Laura Resnick,David Vierling,Ken Liu,Tina Connolly,Paul R. Hardy,Alex Shvartsman,Zach Shephard,Melissa Mead,Gini Koch,Langley Hyde,Bill Ferris,P.J. Sambeaux,Rod M. Santos,G.J. Koch,Tatiana Ivanova
Unidentified Funny Objects 7
Book 10 of 13 · published 2018 Anthology · Mike Resnick,Seanan McGuire,Esther M. Friesner,Laura Resnick,David Vierling,Val Nolan,Matthew Bailey,Alex Shvartsman,Zach Shephard,Gini Koch,Richard Anderson,Jennifer Lee Rossman,Langley Hyde,Shane Halbach,Fred Stesney,Beth Goder,C. Flynt,Greg Sisco,Elin Korund,David Vaughan,Jamie Gilman Kress
Unidentified Funny Objects 8
Book 11 of 13 · published 2020 Anthology · Simon R. Green,Esther M. Friesner,Jody Lynn Nye,Laura Resnick,Michael M. Jones,David Gerrold,Wendy Mass,Jamie Lackey,Alex Shvartsman,Larry Hodges,Gini Koch,James Beamon,James Wesley Rogers,Chris Hepler,Galen Westlake,Kurt Pankau,J.J. Litke,Rob Dircks,Jordan Chase-Young,Amy Lynwander,Mike Morgan,Jared Oliver Adams,Illimani Ferreira,Eric D. Leavitt,Beth Goder,C. Flynt
Unidentified Funny Objects 9
Book 12 of 13 · published 2022 Anthology · Alex Shvartsman
Unidentified Funny Objects 10
Latest in the series · book 13 of 13 · published 2026 Co-authored · Simon R. Green,Alan Dean Foster,Jody Lynn Nye,Alex Shvartsman,Jane Espenson,Gini Koch,Caitlin Rozakis,Esther Friesner
In Silence Sealed
Series opener · book 1 of 43 · published 1988 Multi-author collection
How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
Book 8 of 43 · published 2011 Anthology · Linda D. Addison
The Devil Inside Her
Book 9 of 43 · published 2012 Anthology · Catherine Cavendish
Zombie - A Love Story
Book 12 of 43 · published 2013 Anthology · Patricia Lee Macomber
Ashes
Book 14 of 43 · published 2013 Anthology · Holly Newstein,Ralph W. Bieber
The Color of Bone of Horror Fiction
Book 17 of 43 · published 2014 Anthology · Carol Weekes
Scarabus: The Tale of the Mummy
Book 20 of 43 · published 2016 Anthology · K.H. Koehler
Blue Honey and The Valley of Shadow
Book 23 of 43 · published 2017 Anthology · Toby Bennett,Icy Sedgwick,Benjamin Knox,John Paul Davies,Austin Malone,Elaine Dodge
Singularity and Other Stories
Book 26 of 43 · published 2018 Anthology · Melanie Tem
Sacrificial Lambs and Others
Book 27 of 43 · published 2018 Anthology · Sheri White
Beautiful, Broken Things
Book 30 of 43 · published 2018 Anthology · Daniele Serra,Rose Blackthorn
Fractured Souls: More Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital
Book 35 of 43 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Shults
The Bloodmane Chronicles
Book 39 of 43 · published 2020 Anthology · Sara Brooke
Skull Feeder
Book 40 of 43 · published 2020 Anthology · Pamela Chillemi-Yeager,Dana Joseph Schaff
Voices in the Darkness
Book 42 of 43 · published 2021 Co-authored · David Niall Wilson,Brian A. Hopkins,Kathe Koja,Elizabeth Massie,Cassandra Khaw,Nadia Bulkin
Isolation
Latest in the series · book 43 of 43 · published 2022 Anthology · Michelle Garza
The Presidential Papers
Series opener · book 1 of 32 · published 1984 Anthology · John H. Kessel
The Left Left Behind
Book 3 of 32 · published 2009 Anthology · Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason
The Underbelly
Book 5 of 32 · published 2010 Anthology · Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason
Mammoths of the Great Plains
Book 6 of 32 · published 2010 Anthology · Eleanor Arnason
The Wild Girls
Book 7 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason
Modem Times 2.0
Book 8 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Book 9 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason
Report from Planet Midnight
Book 11 of 32 · published 2012 Anthology · Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason
The Science of Herself
Book 12 of 32 · published 2013 Anthology · Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials
Book 13 of 32 · published 2013 Anthology · Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner
Raising Hell
Book 15 of 32 · published 2014 Anthology · Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be
Book 18 of 32 · published 2016 Anthology · Joe R. Lansdale
Fire.
Book 19 of 32 · published 2017 Anthology · Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason
The Atheist in the Attic
Book 21 of 32 · published 2018 Anthology · Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason
Thoreau's Microscope
Book 22 of 32 · published 2018 Anthology · Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason
Utopias of the Third Kind
Book 28 of 32 · published 2021 Anthology · Vandana Singh
The Collapsing Frontier
Book 30 of 32 · published 2024 Anthology · Jonathan Lethem
She is Here
Latest in the series · book 32 of 32 · published 2026 Anthology · Nicola Griffith
Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists
Book 16 of 70 · published 2011
The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan
Book 21 of 70 · published 2012
Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe
Book 24 of 70 · published 2012
Battle Royale Slam Book: Essays on the Cult Classic by Koushun Takami
Book 38 of 70 · published 2014
Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan
Book 46 of 70 · published 2015
Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker
Book 52 of 70 · published 2017
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985
Book 63 of 70 · published 2021
120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era
Latest in the series · book 70 of 70 · published 2025
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Nick Mamatas?
Nick funded his writing career early on by writing non-fiction and by producing term papers for college students, which later got him some notoriety. This is after he described this experience in an essay he wrote for The Smart Set, Drexel University's online magazine, called “The Term Paper Artist”. Nick's work has appeared places such as: In These Times, Razor, Village Voice, Clamor, Spex, and Polyphony.
Which Nick Mamatas series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror series, the earliest of Nick Mamatas's multi-book series: it opens with In Silence Sealed (1988) and runs to 43 books across 1988–2022, ending with Isolation (2022).
How many books has Nick Mamatas written?
Nick Mamatas has 303 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1984 and 2026. 210 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror series with 43 books — and 93 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Nick Mamatas's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Nick Mamatas's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror (1988–2022, 43 books) and All You Need Is Kill: Official Graphic Novel Adaptation (2014, 1 book).
How are Nick Mamatas's books organised into series?
This guide splits Nick Mamatas's 303 books into 5 named series and 93 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror (43 books, 1988–2022); All You Need Is Kill: Official Graphic Novel Adaptation (1 book, 2014); Akashic Noir (121 books, 2002–2025); Outspoken Authors (32 books, 1984–2026); Unidentified Funny Objects Annual Anthology (13 books, 2012–2026).