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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Francisco, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in the Bronx, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Seattle, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Brooklyn, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology sets its stories inside and around Hasidic communities, where faith, family, secrecy, and power shape the crimes and the pressure.

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.

This follow-up anthology returns to Brooklyn with more standalone noir stories, each using the borough's own history, class lines, and pressure points differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Chicago, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Dublin, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Baltimore, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Washington, D.C., using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in London, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Manhattan, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Miami, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set across the Twin Cities, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Detroit, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Havana, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Los Angeles, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Orleans, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology uses the money world of Wall Street as its common ground, with stories about greed, pressure, and the crimes that thrive where reputation matters most.

This third Brooklyn anthology returns to the borough with more standalone noir stories, this time grouped around truth, lies, and the cost of getting either one wrong.

This follow-up anthology returns to Washington, D.C. with more standalone noir stories shaped by the city's power, ambition, and local fault lines.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Istanbul, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Las Vegas, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to Manhattan with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's scale, wealth, and hidden corners differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Paris, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Queens, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Toronto, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Trinidad, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

Bob, a solitary Boston bartender, finds a battered pit bull puppy in a trash can and reluctantly takes it in with help from wary neighbor Nadia. When the dog's violent former owner comes looking, Bob is pushed into a dangerous clash with local toughs and the bar's criminal backers.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Delhi, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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 anthology gathers dark stories set in Phoenix, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Portland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Rome, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to San Francisco with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's beauty, divisions, and shadows differently.

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 anthology gathers dark stories set in Copenhagen, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Haiti, using local tension, hard choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the crimes.

This anthology gathers dark stories from Indigenous settings across the Americas, where troubled history and present-day danger meet in sharp, place-driven crime fiction.

This anthology ranges across Texas with standalone noir stories shaped by local pride, bad luck, violence, and the state's many different kinds of hard country.

This follow-up anthology returns to Los Angeles with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's glamour, sprawl, and rot differently.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Mexico City, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Moscow, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Orange County, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Philadelphia, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Richmond, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Barcelona, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set around Cape Cod, showing the crime, class strain, and private damage hiding behind the vacation image.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Jersey, using local tension, bad choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Pittsburgh, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Diego, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This follow-up anthology returns to Boston with more standalone noir stories, each using the city's history, class lines, and criminal energy differently.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Kansas City, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Kingston, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology maps Long Island's darker corners, far beyond postcard beaches and wealth, through standalone stories of class division, resentment, and crime.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Mumbai, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in St. Petersburg, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

A noir story set in Staten Island, focusing on a woman grappling with her son's troubling behavior while she becomes obsessed with a tragedy involving a neighbor. It explores themes of entrapment and the dark undercurrents of family life.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Venice, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Buffalo, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Dallas, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This follow-up anthology returns to Haiti with more standalone noir stories, each using the country's pressures, history, and danger in different ways.

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 anthology gathers dark stories set in Manila, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology ranges across the United States, gathering noir stories from very different regions and communities. The shared thread is pressure, crime, and moral damage, not one continuing cast.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Belfast, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Helsinki, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology brings the noir approach behind bars, with stories shaped by confinement, prison hierarchies, and the daily work of survival.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Rio, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Singapore, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Tehran, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Tel Aviv, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Beirut, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Chicago, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Marseille, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Memphis, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Providence, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Zagreb, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Brussels, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

Set around the University of Mississippi, this dark short story follows a young woman caught in the ugly social rituals of campus Greek life. Abbott turns a brief romance into a dreamlike tale of class, sex, and menace.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to New Orleans, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Prague, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in San Juan, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in St. Louis, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Stockholm, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Atlanta, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Buenos Aires, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Montana, using local tension, hard country, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Montreal, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in New Haven, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Oakland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Trinidad, offering a sampler of the setting's darker crime traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Baghdad, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Berlin, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Hong Kong, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Lagos, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Marrakech, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Santa Cruz, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in São Paulo, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Sydney, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Vancouver, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Amsterdam, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Houston, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Milwaukee, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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 anthology gathers dark stories set in Accra, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Addis Ababa, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology ranges across Alabama with standalone noir stories shaped by place, pressure, and the state's different local histories.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Belgrade, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Berkeley, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Columbus, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This volume collects classic noir stories tied to Miami, offering a sampler of the city's darker literary traditions rather than one continuous plot.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Nairobi, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Santa Fe, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set around Tampa Bay, using local tension, bad choices, and a strong sense of place to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Palm Springs, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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 anthology gathers dark stories set in Denver, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology shifts the noir lens from central Paris to the suburbs, where class tension, migration, and everyday pressure shape the crimes.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in South Central Los Angeles, using local pressure, bad choices, and hard-earned neighborhood knowledge to drive the trouble.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Cleveland, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in East Jerusalem, using local tension, politics, and personal risk to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in West Jerusalem, using local tension, politics, and personal risk to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Honolulu, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Hamburg, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.

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.

This anthology gathers dark stories set in Sacramento, using neighborhood detail, local tension, and bad choices to build a strong sense of place.