Usman T. Malik

Fiction

2021 

• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (debut collection)

2020

• “Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love“, WIRED Magazine 
• “City Of Red Midnight: A Hikayat”, Tor.com 
• “Folie a Deux, or The Ticking Hourglass” (Final Cuts: Tales of Hollywood Horror, ed Ellen Datlow)
• “The Wandering City” (Us in Flux)
• “Lady Cataract Comes to the Mosque” (Serial Box)

2018

• “Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung“, Nightmare Magazine. ed. John Joseph Adams
  • Nominated for The Bram Stoker Award 2018
  • Reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. ed. Carmen Maria Machado & John Joseph Adams (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

2017

• “Emperors of Jinn”, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories. ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• “The Fortune of Sparrows”, Black Feathers ed. Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books) 

2016

• “In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro”, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books) (forthcoming)
  • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume 4

2015

• The Last Manuscript, Exigencies 
• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Tor.com
  • Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella
  • Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10 ed. by Jonathan Strahan 
  • Reprinted in the Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas ed. by Paula Guran
  • Translated into Chinese & Reprinted in Science Fiction World Magazine 

2014

• Ishq, Black Static #43 
  • Reprinted at Nightmare magazine 
  • Translated into Italian for Independent Legions Publishing 
• Laal Andhi, Truth or Dare? 
  • Podcast by Pseudopod 
  • Reprinted at Nightmare magazine 
• The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family, Qualia Nous 
  • Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
  • Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
  • Reprinted in Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Vol 9 ed. by Jonathan Strahan
  • Reprinted in Apex Book of World SF 4 ed. by Lavie Tidhar & Mahvesh Murad 
  • Reprinted in Nebula Award Showcase
  • Translated into Chinese & reprinted in Science Fiction World Magazine
  • Translated into Italian for Independent Legions Publishing
  • Podcast by Tor.com for Midnight in Karachi
• Resurrection Points, Strange Horizons 
  • Reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction 2 ed. by Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly 
  • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2015 ed. by Paula Guran 
  • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 ed. by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein 

2013

• Blood Women, Chiral Mad 2 
  • Blood Women (audio), Pseudopod
  • Honorable Mention (Long List) in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year 2013

Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall, Daily Science Fiction 

Hearts in Reverse, The Crimson Pact Volume 5

Vitriol, Papercuts literary magazine (2012)

A Demon in the Mughal Court, The Crimson Pact volume 4 (2012)