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An aimless driver in the mountains comes upon something that s both more and less than he hoped for. A child discovers why you should always stay in bed if you wake up in the middle of the night. A homeowner unpacks the wrong bag of groceries, and comes to suspect his neighbors might have secrets that he doesn t want to know. A cable shopping channel presenter is confronted with disgruntled customers from a VERY long way out of town... and a man sets himself to rid the world of one of its most famous lies, and winds up destroying himself instead. Michael Marshall Smith s last short story collection was hailed as 'stellar' by Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) and a 'major publishing event' by Ellen Datlow, and it won the International Horror Guild Award. You re invited to return to the short fiction of New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Marshall Smith: it is Everything You Need.

Table of Contents:

• This Is Now - (2004)
• Unbelief - (2010)
• Walking Wounded - (1997)
• The Seventeenth Kind - (2007)
• A Place for Everything - (2007)
• The Last Barbeque - (2012)
• The Stuff that Goes on in Their Heads - (2011)
• Unnoticed
• The Good Listener
• Different Now - (1997)
• Author Of The Death
• Sad, Dark Thing - (2011)
• What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - (2009)
• The Things He Said - (2007)
• Substitutions - (2010)
• The Woodcutter
• Everything You Need
• Story Notes (Everything You Need)

It's not every day that the Devil knocks on your door From the critically-acclaimed author of Only Forward comes a delightful new tale about Hannah, a young girl living a mundane existence in California, who discovers that her grandfather has been friends with the Devil for the past 150 years... and now, they need her help.

BFA and WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Dark Terrors 2: The Gollancz Book of Horror (1996), edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton. The story can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 (1997), edited by Stephen Jones. It is included in the collections What You Make It (1999) and More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003).

BFA winning and WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror (1995) edited by David Sutton and Stephen Jones. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 (1996), edited by Stephen Jones. The story is included in the collections What You Make It (1999) and More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003).

Going well beyond the scope of his UK collection from several years ago, this is the definitive collection of Smith's shorter fiction, as well as his long overdue first US collection. More Tomorrow & Other Stories features 30 of the author's best stories, plus an introduction by award-winning editor Stephen Jones and an afterword by Michael Marshall Smith. A massive book, at almost 500 pages! There are no UK or US trade paperback, trade hardcover, or any other edition currently planned, so once these are gone, they're gone! Wraparound cover art by John Picacio.

Contents:

• Introduction: Alias Smith & Jones, by Stephen Jones
• More Tomorrow
• Being Right
• Hell Hath Enlarged Herself
• Save As...
• The Handover
• What You Make It
• Maybe Next Time
• The Book of Irrational Numbers
• When God Lived in Kentish Town
• The Man Who Drew Cats
• A Place To Stay
• The Dark Land
• To See The Sea
• Two Shot
• Last Glance Back
• They Also Serve
• Dear Alison
• To Receive Is Better
• The Munchies
• Always
• Not Waving
• Everybody Goes
• Dying
• Charms
• Open Doors
• Later
• More Bitter Than Death
• A Long Walk, For The Last Time
• The Vaccinator
• Enough Pizza
• On Not Writing (An Afterword), by M. M. Smith

It's not what you've done that counts-it's what you remember....

If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?

Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair. All Hap has to do is carry the memories for a couple of hours. It's easy money. Until a beautiful young woman who committed murder leaves her memory with Hap-and won't take it back.

Now Hap is on the run: from the LAPD, from six angels of death in gray suits and sunglasses, and from the best hit man in the business-his ex-wife. Even worse, people all around Hap are disappearing in a strange white light. His only hope is to negotiate with a guy who may be much more than he seems, so he can stay alive long enough to discover who is and who isn't...

Only a handful of authors write with such startling originality that the uniqueness of their vision has become synonymous with their name. In Spares and One of Us, Michael Marshall Smith has earned that distinction. In this unsettling, suspenseful, and wildly imaginative novel he's written a tale that from page one hurtles us....

Only Forward

Call him Stark. If you have to. If you're lucky, you won't call him at all. Because if you do, it means you've got trouble. Big trouble. And the problem is that before Stark is done fixing something, a whole lot of other things usually get broken. Like laws and lives--and anyone who gets in the way. It's that attitude that's earned him his latest assignment: finding a missing VIP named Fell Alkland. The authorities believe Alkland has been kidnapped. Stark doesn't. He hasn't stayed alive this long without learning the basics of survival in a world hurtling straight to hell: Things are always more complicated than they seem. And when a job seems too easy, that's when something really ugly is about to happen. For Fell Alkland is about to become Stark's worst nightmare, a nightmare where anything can happen at any time--where friends can become enemies in a heartbeat and your most secret fear a soul-screaming reality. And the worst of it is that for this nightmare you don't even have to be asleep.

They were raised for one chilling purpose....

A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who've been prisoners from birth. Now he's on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates (well, six and a half), and the people who own them will do anything to get them back. What's worse, Jack is on a head-on collision course with a cold-blooded killer with one purpose: to cancel Jack once and for all. Jack has a tough decision to make: keep running or even the score. Either way spells trouble... the kind of trouble most people run screaming from.

Who are the Spares? And what is their purpose? That is the most shocking revelation of all.

n 1990, British-born author Michael Marshall Smith burst on to the literary scene with his first story "The Man Who Drew Cats." It won the prestigious British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, and he went on to win the award again the next year. In a career that has now spanned three decades he has written nearly 100 short stories, published more than a dozen best-selling novels around the world, and scripted numerous movie and television projects.

Now, to celebrate his three decades as a writer, The Best of Michael Marshall Smith brings together thirty of his most emotive and powerful stories (including all his award-winning short fiction), along with extensive story notes by the author.

Featuring evocative heading illustrations by Les Edwards, this career-spanning collection includes such memorable tales as "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself," "More Tomorrow," "To Receive is Better," "What You Make It," "Later," "The Dark Land," "What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night," "Always," and many others, in their definitive versions.

By turns touching, disturbing, and frightening, these stories are not limited by theme or genre, but reveal a writer always in command, and whose imagination knows no bounds. The Best of Michael Marshall Smith is the ultimate compilation of the author's work, and stands as a testament to his mastery of, and commitment to, his craft.

Table of Contents:
• The Handover • (2000) • short story
• Save As ... • (1997) • short story
• Being Right • (2003) • short story
• Hell Hath Enlarged Herself • (1996) • novelette
• More Tomorrow • (1995) • novelette
• The Motel Business • short story
• Dear Alison • (1997) • short story
• The Man Who Drew Cats • (1990) • short story
• This Is Now • (2004) • short story
• To Receive Is Better • (1994) • short story
• They Also Serve • (2001) • short story
• The Scariest Thing in the World • (2018) • short story
• The Seventeenth Kind • (2007) • novelette
• What You Make It • (1999) • novelette
• Not Waving • (1996) • novelette
• Later • (1993) • short story
• Walking Wounded • (1997) • novelette
• The Gist • (2013) • short story
• Author of the Death • (2013) • short story
• The Dark Land • (1991) • short story
• Different Now • (1997) • short story
• The Things He Said • (2007) • short story
• The Window of Erich Zann • (2018) • novelette
• Everything You Need • (2013) • short story
• What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night • (2009) • short story
• Failure • (2013) • short story
• Charms • (1997) • short story
• The Burning Woods • (2018) • novella
• Shit Happens • (2018) • short story
• Always • (1992) • short story
• Best of--Story Notes • essay

For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the skateboard, while other boys his age are in school. He hates the unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy. Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary, no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room.

But on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy... and the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change everything.

A richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story, The Servants marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall Smith - the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning author of Spares.

WFA and BFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994), edited by Stephen Jones. It can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 6 (1995), also edited by Jones. The story is inlcluded in the collection More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003).

Don't get out of bed... whatever happens.

This short story originally in chapbook edition in 2009. It can also be found in the anthologies The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (2010), edited by Stephen Jones, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two (2010), edited by Ellen Datlow, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010, edited by Paula Guran. The story is included in the collection Everything You Need (2013).