Nick Mamatas Books in Order

A man in late-1990s New York finds his life colliding with the violence of the 1863 draft riots. This short, nasty novella blends ghost story, time-slip horror, and city history.

An early collection of stories and essays, this book shows Mamatas working at the overlap of satire, speculative fiction, and cultural criticism. It is sharp, restless, and already interested in the weird edges of everyday life.

Jack Kerouac sees R'lyeh rise from the Pacific and goes back on the road to find Neal Cassady before a Lovecraftian apocalypse takes hold. Beat restlessness and cosmic horror make a strange, sharp fit.

This anthology looks at city life through odd, dark, and surreal stories, turning streets, apartments, and storefronts into places where reality slips. It is less about one plot than about the strange pressure of urban living.

A slim chapbook of Lovecraftian senryu, this book distills cosmic dread into brief, playful poems. It is a small joke with real craft behind it, and a good side door into Mamatas's weirder humor.

A laid-off Long Island father hides a homemade nuclear bomb in a lawn gnome and declares his house an independent nation. Told through his telepathic twelve-year-old son, it is a fast political satire with real family chaos.

As the world winds down, Jaskey gathers a small audience and keeps telling stories for as long as the sun still sets. It is a bleak, oddly tender apocalypse tale about performance, memory, and the need to be heard.

This collection hops from pirates and bloggers to darker, harder-to-classify nightmares. The stories mix satire, horror, and slipstream weirdness in ways that stay unsettling after the punch line lands.

This pocket guide rounds up put-downs, comebacks, insulting gestures, and rude lines for almost any occasion. It is a quick, jokey grab bag built for browsing rather than deep study.

After Julia Hernandez leaves her husband, shoots a real estate developer, and disappears, the story opens onto a hidden war between hyperintelligent spiders and parasitic wasps. It is political, strange, and deliberately hard to pin down.

Part writing guide, part career survival manual, this nonfiction collection is blunt about freelancing, publishing, and making art without much money. It is funny, practical, and occasionally ruthless in the best way.

This wild mashup throws gonzo road-trip energy into Lovecraft country. Drugs, dread, satire, and cosmic horror all pile into the same car.

Dave Holbrook is a bullied New Jersey teenager with a wrecked home life and a dangerous pull toward Eris, the goddess of discord. His life splinters into alternate paths, each one pushing harder toward violence, fate, or escape.

In 1989, punk outsider Golden Dawn finds her political and magical mentor dead, and she refuses to accept the easy suicide story. Her hunt for the truth turns into a grim collision of murder, occultism, and radical politics.

This small quote book gathers sharp lines, famous sayings, and quick context on who said what. It is meant as a handy store of wit, insight, and useful comebacks.

Mamatas's official graphic adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's story turns an alien war into a lean, fast-moving comic. A soldier dies, wakes up at the start of the same battle, and keeps learning until survival starts to look possible.

In a ruined San Francisco, failed writer and practiced zombie driller Billy Kostopolos drinks, hustles, and tries to survive what is left of the apocalypse. Then revolutionaries, mad scientists, and a buried civic secret pull him into worse trouble.

A collection of Lovecraftian stories that drags eldritch horror into modern settings and stranger literary games. Expect shoggoths, fishy cults, and Mamatas's usual mix of wit and unease.

Colleen Danzig arrives at a Lovecraft convention in Providence and finds her obnoxious roommate murdered, face removed. What follows is a nasty, funny mystery about fandom, occult obsession, and the people who never stop arguing about H. P. Lovecraft.

This story collection gathers a decade of Mamatas's shorter work, from crime and satire to odd speculative riffs. It also includes his preferred text of *Under My Roof*, giving the whole book a sharp political edge.

An eleventh-century warrior is yanked out of death and dropped into modern Manhattan with one job, kill the living embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins. He charges through the city's elite with almost no time, no gear, and plenty of rage.

This slim volume leads with a starship novella in which emigrants keep a vast vessel running through dreams and play. It also pairs that story with essays and shorter work, showing Mamatas at his strangest and funniest.

Journalist Mike Karras is hired to investigate why early reports of mass shootings so often mention a second gunman. The job drags him into surveillance, conspiracy culture, and a much stranger plot stalking contemporary America.

Six horror writers trade in intimate, unsettling tales about what waits in the dark. The result is a compact anthology of eerie voices, each story taking a different route to dread.

This futuristic reworking of *The Tempest* follows Kalivas, the last free-range human on the Farallon Islands, after the Master and his daughter seize his home. It turns Shakespeare into a strange anticolonial science fiction tale about power, dependence, and escape.