The best of Michael Marshall Smith

The best of Michael Marshall Smith

Michael Marshall Smith

Book - 2020

"In 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."--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Short stories.
Short stories, English > 20th century.
Horror fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Genres
Horror fiction
Fantasy fiction
Short stories
Published
Burton, MI : Subterranean Press 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
Michael Marshall Smith (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781596069503
  • The Handover
  • Save As
  • Being Right
  • Hell Hath Enlarged Herself
  • More Tomorrow
  • The Motel Business
  • Dear Alison
  • The Man Who Drew Cats
  • This is Now
  • To Receive is Better
  • They Also Serve
  • The Scariest Thing in the World
  • The Seventeenth Kind
  • What You Make It
  • Not Waving
  • Later
  • Walking Wounded
  • The Gist
  • Author of the Death
  • The Dark Land
  • Different Now
  • The Things He Said
  • The Window of Erich Zann
  • Everything You Need
  • What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night
  • Failure
  • Charms
  • The Burning Woods
  • Shit Happens
  • Always
  • Best Of-Story Notes
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The 30 stories in this standout collection showcase Smith's facility at imbuing genre tropes with humanity. Every entry offers something unexpected, while grounding inventive paranormal situations in recognizable emotion. Smith (Everything You Need) crafts a plausible sequel to Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann" with "Window of Erich Zann," successfully transplanting the tale from Europe to Haight-Ashbury and exploring the protagonist's capacity to see into a terrifying alternate reality. Smith's first published short story, "The Man Who Drew Cats," which won the British Fantasy Award in 1991, offers a searing window into domestic violence, examining the passive group-think of unhelpful bystanders on the way to a chilling denouement. "Dear Alison," which takes the form of a letter a husband is drafting to the wife he both loves and is abandoning, incrementally reveals the horror at its heart in a masterful slow burn. Smith conveys his fantastical plots in evocative prose; in one story, he describes the rustling of a femme fatale's dress as sounding "like a shiver of leaves outside a window in the night." This collection makes for a perfect introduction to a gifted writer who merits a larger audience. (Dec.)

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