An expert on horror and sci-fi cinema (his books of film criticism include Nightmare Movies and Millennium Movies), Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. He is complexly and irreverently referential; the Dracula sequence--Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha--not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith. In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. His pseudonymous novels, as Jack Yeovil, play elegant games with genre cliche--perhaps the best of these is the sword-and-sorcery novel Drachenfels which takes the prescribed formulae of the games company to whose bible it was written and make them over entirely into a Kim Newman novel. Life's Lottery, his most mainstream novel, consists of multiple choice fragments which enable readers to choose the hero's fate and take him into horror, crime and sf storylines or into mundane reality.
Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Historical Mystery, Science Fiction
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Series
Anno Dracula
1. Anno Dracula (1992)
2. The Bloody Red Baron (1995)
3. Dracula Cha Cha Cha (1998)
aka Judgment of Tears
4. Johnny Alucard (2013)
Anno Dracula 1899 (2017)
5. One Thousand Monsters (2017)
6. Daikaiju (2019)
1. Anno Dracula (1992)
2. The Bloody Red Baron (1995)
3. Dracula Cha Cha Cha (1998)
aka Judgment of Tears
4. Johnny Alucard (2013)
Anno Dracula 1899 (2017)
5. One Thousand Monsters (2017)
6. Daikaiju (2019)
Diogenes Club
Where the Bodies Are Buried (2000)
1. The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006)
2. The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2007)
3. Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (2010)
Where the Bodies Are Buried (2000)
1. The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006)
2. The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2007)
3. Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (2010)
Drearcliff Grange School
1. The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (2015)
2. The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School (2018)
1. The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (2015)
2. The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School (2018)
Novels
The Night Mayor (1989)
Bad Dreams (1990)
Jago (1991)
The Quorum (1994)
Back in the USSA (1997) (with Eugene Byrne)
Andy Warhol's Dracula (1998)
Life's Lottery (1999)
Seven Stars (2000)
The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (2011)
Cat People (2013)
An English Ghost Story (2014)
Quatermass and the Pit (2014)
Bad Dream (2016)
Angels of Music (2016)
Something More Than Night (2021)
Bad Dreams (1990)
Jago (1991)
The Quorum (1994)
Back in the USSA (1997) (with Eugene Byrne)
Andy Warhol's Dracula (1998)
Life's Lottery (1999)
Seven Stars (2000)
The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (2011)
Cat People (2013)
An English Ghost Story (2014)
Quatermass and the Pit (2014)
Bad Dream (2016)
Angels of Music (2016)
Something More Than Night (2021)
Collections
The Original Dr Shade (1994)
Famous Monsters (1995)
Unforgivable Stories (2000)
Binary 2 (2000) (with Michael Marshall Smith)
Dead Travel Fast (2005)
Famous Monsters (1995)
Unforgivable Stories (2000)
Binary 2 (2000) (with Michael Marshall Smith)
Dead Travel Fast (2005)
Novellas and Short Stories
Anthologies edited
Non fiction show
Kim Newman recommends
The Pale House Devil (2023)
Richard Kadrey
"Hardboiled hit-men and haunted house horrors - makes for a fast-read pulp treat."
Verge (2023)
Nadia Attia
"An enthralling trip through a changed British landscape, funny and ominous by turns, digging deep into folk beliefs and the power of curses and blessings."
The Final Girl Support Group (2021)
Grady Hendrix
"A (bloody) valentine to the slasher franchises of the VHS era, but also a smart novel about survivor guilt and the concept of the enduring heroine."
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Books containing stories by Kim Newman
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021)
Evil Lives on in the Land!
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Stephen Jones
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