Books written by Kim Newman

  • Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes

    1898 saw the first appearance of Flaxman Low in Pearson's Magazine. Low was a sleuth cast clearly in the Holmes mould: clever, well read, possessing strong deductive powers with the ability to discern clues where others failed to do so.

  • Mister October, Volume II: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala

    On March 21st, 2013, I received a phone call from Holly Newstein telling me that her husband, Rick Hautala, had suffered a massive heart attack. That piece of information shocked...

  • Anno Dracula

    The notion that the Diogenes Club is an ancestor of Ian Fleming's Universal Export, a covert front for British Intelligence, comes from Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script for The Privale Life of Sherlock Holmes.

  • Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju

    Rule one of covert work – don't have identifying marks. Jun Zero ought to be someone you couldn't describe after he'd got away. She got a different reading off Hal when he spoke. He was afraid of her – she did have a sword to his neck ...

  • Doctor Who: The Episode Guide

    ... 22 October 2006–1 January 2007 (DVD, 2007), Series 2: BBC2, 16 January–4 April 2008 (DVD, 2008), Series 3: BBC1, 6–10 July 2009 (DVD, 2009) Précis: A covert investigation team deals with phenomena emerging from the Cardiff rift.

  • THE MAN FROM THE DIOGENES CLUB

    I've run a covert space programme to set up the installation.' Onions snorted disbelief. 'Yes, without anyone noticing,' Swellhead answered the unasked question. 'Clever, isn't it?' A technician came up, thumped his forehead, ...

  • Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s

    ... Dragon' 347 Wilson, F. Paul 51 Wilson, Lisle 164 Wilson, Luke 389, 479 Wilson, Owen 323 Wilson, Patrick 484 Wilson, Peta 346 Wilson, Ruth 322 Wilson, Stuart 468 Wilton, Penelope 566 Wimmer, Kurt 345 Wind Chill (2007) 454 Windprints ...

  • Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #22: Featuring a New Nero Wolfe Story!

    Included are 7 stories, a poem, all the usual features, and more: Features: From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D. Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson Non Fiction: SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman BETTER THAN HOLMES? by Terry ...

  • Quatermass and the Pit

    Outside the station, Ellis shows Quatermass and Barbara the derelict houses. In the serial, a few residents remain ('builders been trying to get rid of them for months – took a bomb to do it'). Chatty, highly strung Mrs Chilcot (Hilda ...

  • Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s

    One joke is told over and over with ever more elaborate variations throughout David R. Ellis' Final Destination 2 (2003), Wong's Final Destination 3 (2006), which toys with branching alternate narratives in the DVD edition, and Ellis' e ...

  • Kim Newman's Video Dungeon

    Writers Gary J. Tunnicliffe (effects man) and Stanley Isaacs have bit-roles. Directed by Pat Corbitt. MEGA PIRANHA (2010) Mutant Venezuelan piranha get bigger, leaping out of the Orinoco to eat bikini babes ...

  • Jago

    A strong capital means that the Parliament of the Marches will settle in Oxford or somewhere, and be able to ratify treaties with the Welsh, the Scots and the Cornish. If London were to, say, fall apart, then there would be another ...

  • Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

    It showed a creature slithering white coils among green Cornish hills. Hairless and earless, it had a catlike snarl and human eyes. A knight in armour raised a lance against plumes of flame pouring from the beast's nostrils.

  • Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes

    That astonishing summons brought me to the Cornish harbour town of Fowey. There, as directed by further information within the telegram, I joined my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, on a tugboat, which immediately steamed toward the open ...

  • Anno Dracula

    This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.

  • Anno Dracula: Anno Dracula

    Cette nouvelle édition du classique de Kim Newman comprend des bonus totalement inédits : scènes supplémentaires, interviews, fin alternative et bien d’autres surprises.

  • Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha

    'Hamish Bond.' 'Good morning, Commander Bond,' Beauregard said. 'Welcome to the Eternal City.' The newborn took a cursory look across Parco di Traiano, taking in the ruin of Nero's Golden House (one of Rome's many monuments to ...

  • Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha

    Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.

  • Fantasy Tales 4

    Kim Newman, Charles L Grant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Stephen Jones, David Sutton, Darrell Schweitzer, Stephen Gallagher. So we lay there in the darkness, and broke out the picnic. I can't speak for anyone else, but I was ravenous. I'd guess ...

  • The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies: 365 Films to Scare You to Death

    This book contains 365 film reviews listed in chronological order.