Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Man Who Drew Cats | 1990 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 2 | The Dark Land | 1991 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 3 | To Receive Is Better | 1994 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 4 | More Tomorrow | 1995 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 5 | Hell Hath Enlarged Herself | 1996 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 6 | Foreign Bodies | 1996 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 7 | The Vaccinator | 1999 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 8 | The Handover | 2000 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 9 | What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night | 2009 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 10 | Sad, Dark Thing | 2011 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 11 | Diet Hell | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 12 | A Convenient Arrangement | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 13 | Save As… | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 14 | Being Right | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 15 | When God Lived In Kentish Town | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 16 | Missed Connection | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 17 | The Seventeenth Kind | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 18 | Autumn | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 19 | Later | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 20 | Two Shot | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 21 | Enough Pizza | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 22 | More Bitter Than Death | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 23 | Maybe Next Time | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 24 | Everybody Goes | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 25 | The Fracture | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 26 | Getting Over | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 27 | A Long Walk, For The Last Time | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 28 | Open Doors | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 29 | Mammoth Books Presents Substitutions | 2012 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
| 30 | The Gist | 2013 | Michael Marshall Smith | Buy |
Michael Marshall Smith has published 30 individually released short stories and novellas. His first published story, The Man Who Drew Cats (1990), won attention early in his career, and he has continued producing short fiction consistently over more than three decades.
Many of these stories were released as standalone digital editions in 2012, making his backlist widely accessible. His short fiction ranges from science fiction to horror to stories that are hard to classify, but they share a knack for finding strangeness in ordinary settings.