New Releases by Kim Newman

From the acclaimed critic and award-winning author of Anno Dracula comes a bitingly satirical story of superheroism, soap opera and alternative reality -- for readers of Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible and George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards. When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissie’s aunt - former national heroine Lady Shade - goes missing. Afraid for Jasmine’s safety and itching to costume-up, Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into Devil’s Dyke, the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous cutthroats (supervillains) in Britain… only to find the inmates have taken over… Chrissie debuts successfully as a cloak (superheroine), but who will become the arch-nemesis of Lady Shade II? In Chrissie’s timeline, the Beatles didn’t split up and recorded a hallucinodelic album in 1972 – Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) – which literally changed the world. Set in an alternative 2020s London, this hugely entertaining, darkly humorous superhero tale is packed with Newman’s trademark wit, and comes with wickedly sharp edges.

Discover dark rituals, eldritch creatures, and monstrous secrets in this masterfully frightening horror anthology of 17 short stories inspired by the iconic works of legendary writer H. P. Lovecraft, curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones. Featuring some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Brian Stableford, and many more. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing. Today’s masters of horror dare to conjure terrifying tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s classic works. In this anthology, discover a monstrous secret beneath a derelict church, a search for buried treasure gone terribly wrong, a blood sacrifice gone horribly right, and a return to the legendary forsaken New England fishing village full of sparkling treasure, loathsome denizens, and unspeakable evil. Featuring 17 chilling stories curated by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones, as well as the original masterpiece of horror by H. P. Lovecraft. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing. Including stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Basil Copper Jack Yeovil Guy N. Smith Adrian Cole D. F. Lewis Ramsey Campbell David Sutton Peter Tremayne Kim Newman Brian Mooney Brian Stableford Nicholas Royle David Langford Michael Marshall Smith Brian Lumley Neil Gaiman

This book contains 383 film reviews listed in chronological order. Each decade is prefaced by an introductory chapter putting the films in context, and the review sections also contain features that either explore ideas behind horror's favorite monsters or introduce related fields of interest for the horror fan.

From the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula, the perfect gift for those who love the dark fantastic imaginations of Neil Gaiman and T. Kingfisher, this is a nightmarish tale of a haunted Christmas set deep in the British countryside not too long ago. Cosy traditions are made twisted and terrifying as a mother and son grapple with their painful past.

A chilling anthology of nineteen stories of cursed and haunted books; featuring malevolent second-hand books, cursed novelizations, unsettling journals and the end of the world. From award-winning authors including Eric LaRocca, Charlie Higson, Kim Newman and A. G. Slatter. Perfect for fans of When Things Get Dark. You find it hidden in the dark corner of the bookstore; tucked away in a box in the attic, desperate to be read; lurking on your bookshelf, never seen before. Crack the spine, feel the ancient pages. Read it aloud, if you dare. This anthology brings together horror’s best and brightest to delve into the pages of cursed books, Eldritch tomes and haunted bookstores. Featuring stories from: Adam Cesare Eric LaRocca Isy Suttie Charlie Higson A. G. Slatter Priya Sharma Lucie McKnight Hardy Alison Moore Kim Newman And many more!

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #33 presents new tales by modern writers, great nonfiction, as well as classic Holmes adventures. In this issue: FEATURES FROM WATSON’S NOTEBOOKS, by John H Watson, M.D. ASK MRS HUDSON, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman NON-FICTION SIX DEGREES OF TENTACULAR SEPARATION, by Elizabeth Crowens NEW FICTION THE ADVENTURE OF THE DURHAM MONOGRAPH, by Robert Dawson THE CASE OF THE DIRTY PAWS, by J.M. Walker LONG SHOT, by Hal Charles CAPTAIN DAYLIGHT, by Andrew Salmon ONE NIGHT AT MCGUFFIN’S TAVERN, by Teel James Glenn THE ADVENTURE OF THE TWO GUINEAS, by Michael Mallory THE HOLMES IMPERSONATOR ON THE BOARDS, by Janice Law THE MAN WHO SLIPPED BETWEEN, by Dennis Maulsby THE ADVENTURE OF THE IRON ELEPHANT, by Jim Robb CLASSIC SHERLOCK HOLMES THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The collected adventures of England’s greatest occult investigator! When the man called the Witchfinder becomes an agent of the Queen, he is led from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly, through the American West, and to explore the mysteries of Unland! Throughout his adventures, he’ll face occult conspiracies, rampaging monsters, and London’s most infamous secret society: the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra! This first omnibus edition collects Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder volumes 1-3, complete with extensive sketchbook section, now in paperback!

Signed deluxe hardcover edition with sprayed edges and ribbon marker of the trailblazing alternate history vampire novel, with a brand-new introduction from Neil Gaiman and exclusive additional material from the author. Horror fans will not want to miss this. It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. His polluted bloodline spreads through London as its citizens increasingly choose to become vampires. In the grim backstreets of Whitechapel, a killer known as ‘Silver Knife’ is cutting down vampire girls. The eternally young vampire Geneviere Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club are drawn together as they both hunt the sadistic killer, bringing them ever closer to England’s most bloodthirsty ruler yet.

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #30 is back with a special fiction issue featuring 6 Sherlock Holmes stories and a Mr. Moto story! FEATURES: FROM WATSON’S NOTEBOOKS, by John H Watson ASK MRS HUDSON, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman I’LL TAKE A PASS ON THE CURRIED MUTTON, THANK YOU, by O’Neill Curatolo BARTITSU, THE REVIVED MIXED-MARTIAL ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, by Elizabeth Crowens FICTION: THE PARIS BARGAINS, by Hal Charles THE ADVENTURE OF THE BOOBY-TRAPPED BOOTS, by Jeffrey A. Lockwood THE SIGN OF THE THREE, by MYCROFT HOLMES AND THE BLACK HEART OF LONDON, by J.G. Grimmer THE LAST COLONEL MORAN STORY, by Rafe McGregor THE PROBLEM AT THE MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, by Gary Lovisi ONE MEDIUM, WELL DONE, by Frank Emerson MR. MOTO AT MANZANAR, by George Zebrowski

With his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale. 'If more mysteries were written like this, I’d read more mysteries.' - Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together they will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies.

Experience the gothic splendour of Warhammer Horror in this great omnibus. Evil has a new enemy… one of its own. Meet Genevieve Dieudonné. She’s beautiful, powerful, resourceful and courageous – and over four hundred years old. In the crowded cities and dark forests of the Warhammer world, Genevieve and her unlikely companions battle the forces of malevolence and insanity. However, the vampire blood running through Genevieve’s veins means she must constantly fight the urge to surrender to the evil within. The Vampire Genevieve collects together all the tales of Genevieve and her unusual allies into one packed volume, including Drachenfels, Genevieve Undead, Beasts in Velvet, and Silver Nails.

Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a work of ambitious horror. The new edition includes a postscript about the sequel, The Curse of the Cat People.

Readers are taken through a journey in the fantasy land of Warhammer through five interwoven novellas featuring Genevieve the vampire. From the bandit-infested Grey Mountains to the Chaos Wastes, these stories show that nowhere, not even the sanctity of the capital city of the empire, is safe. In the dark and dangerous Warhammer world, the desperate and the depraved live hand in glove. In this anthology of stories reacquaint yourself with some of its more morally ambiguous denizens, including ‘Filthy’ Harald Kleindeinst and the scryer Rosanna Ophuls, Baron Johann von Mecklenberg, playwright and self-confessed genius Detlef Sierck and of course, the vampire Genevieve.

Dark and terrible secrets may be found lurking within the cities of the Old World and the savage wilderness that surrounds them. Genevieve Dieudonné, vampire heroine of Drachenfels, battles to outwit adversaries both magical and mundane, human and beast, in this series of three linked novellas: Stage Blood, The Cold Stark House and Unicorn Ivory. After her return from Drachenfels, Genevieve Dieudonne, the vampire femme fatale, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery in which she must face monsters and magicians, intrigue and evil. Her journey takes her from the depths of an old theater to an accursed mansion under a deadly gothic spell, and finally to the hunt of a savage unicorn mare through haunted forests.

The stunning new novel starring the superpowered Amy Thomsett from the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula Of course, Drearcliff Grange School was haunted. Amy Thomsett - the girl who flies on moth wings - is confident she can solve any mystery, sleuth out any secret and defy any dark force. With her friends in the Moth Club she travels to London to take part in the Great Game, a contest of skill against other institutes of learning. In a nightmare, and in the cellars of a house in Piccadilly, Amy glimpses a spectre who might have dogged her all her life, the Broken Doll. Wherever the limping ghost is seen, terror strikes. And the lopsided, cracked-face, glass-eyed creature might well be the most serious threat the Moth Club have ever faced.

Ripped from the pages of Empire magazine, the first collection of film critic, film historian and novelist Kim Newman’s reviews of the best and worst B movies. Some of the cheapest, trashiest, goriest and, occasionally, unexpectedly good films from the past 25 years are here, torn apart and stitched back together again in Kim’s unique style. Everything you want to know about DTV hell is here. Enter if you dare.

Written by award-winning novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series. Rome 1959 and Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. She finds herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city. She is on his trail, as is the undead British secret agent, Bond.

CAN’T ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE? Send for the man from the Diogenes Club! The debonair psychic investigator Richard Jeperson is the Most Valued Member of the Diogenes Club, the least-known and most essential branch of British Intelligence. While foiling the plot of many a maniacal mastermind, he is chased by sentient snowmen and Nazi zombies, investigates an unearthly murderer stalking the sex shops of 1970s Soho, and battles a poltergeist to prevent it triggering nuclear Armageddon. But as a new century dawns, can he save the ailing Diogenes Club itself from a force more diabolical still? Newman’s ten mischievous tales, with cameos from the much-loved characters of the Anno Dracula universe, will entertain fans and newcomers alike.

While digging an extension to the London Underground Railway, workmen discover an object which might be an ancient Martian spaceship – and Professor Quatermass of the British Rocket Group investigates a mystery which prompts frightening revelations about the origins of humanity itself. Before 2001: A Space Odyssey and Doctor Who, Quatermass and the Pit was the paramount British science fiction saga in film and television. Kim Newman's fascinating study focuses on Roy Ward Baker's 1967 film, written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale for Hammer Films, but also looks at the origins of the Quatermass franchise in 1950s BBC serials and earlier films. Exploring the production and reception of the film and series, Newman assesses the lasting importance of this landmark franchise.

Framed for an attempt to blow up Dracula’s Tin Jubilee river procession, Kate Reed is now running for her undead life, pursued by Dracula’s secret police force. Meanwhile, the Lord of Strange Deaths and his cohorts have used the commotion to commit the ‘crime of the Century’. Now Kate Reed, Irman Vep and Fah Lo Suee must team up for one final battle with the true architect of the terrorist plot before facing the ultimate evil of COUNT DRACULA himself...

A brand new collection of chilling stories by master of horror Kim Newman, in which Jack the Ripper still stalks the streets, Frankenstein’s monster rises from the Arctic ice, and the terrifying legacy of Dr Jeyll and Mr Hyde haunts fog-shrouded London. This volume also includes a brand-new, exclusive Anno Dracula story, ‘Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899’, which sets the scene for the forthcoming novel Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju.

« Une perspective aussi nouvelle que réjouissante sur l'univers de Sherlock Holmes. Un pur régal. » Hitfix Imaginez les jumeaux maléfiques de Sherlock Holmes et du docteur Watson, et vous obtiendrez le redoutable duo formé par le professeur James Moriarty, serpent rusé d'une intelligence remarquable aussi cruel qu'imprévisible, et le colonel Moran, violent, libertin et politiquement incorrect. Ensemble, ils règnent sur Londres en maîtres du crime, tenant dans leur poing police et hors-la-loi. Quelle que soit leur mission, du meurtre au cambriolage de haut vol, Moriarty et Moran accueillent un flot de visiteurs malfaisants : membres du Si-Fan assoiffés de sang, Vampires de Paris, et même une certaine Irène Adler...

A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy’s, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black hoods, Amy forms a secret, superpowered society called the Moth Club to rescue their friend. They soon discover that the Hooded Conspiracy runs through the School, and it's up to the Moth Club to get to the heart of it.

Rome, 1959. Dracula est sur le point de se marier en grande pompe avec la princesse moldave Asa Vajda. Mais cet événement mondain exceptionnel, qui rassemblera tout le gotha vivant et mort-vivant de la Ville éternelle, n'est que la première étape d'un ambitieux projet élaboré par le comte. Orson Welles et un agent secret vampire du nom de Bond sont également de la partie, ainsi qu'un mystérieux assassin, le Bourreau Écarlate, qui trouble la dolce vita de la cité en semant les cadavres derrière lui... « Une verve étincelante et un récit saupoudré de références littéraires et cinématographiques. Un cocktail de sang, de sensations fortes et d'humour sournois. » The Times

When Anne Nielson, an American journalist, travels to London to investigate the death of her sister Judi, she finds herself sucked into her nightmarish world of corruption and perversion, populated by dealers, pimps, sadomasochists and a vampire race that feasts on their victims' dreams. At the centre of this sickly web lurks the Games Master. Something more and something less than a man, the closer Anne draws to his domain the more she endangers herself and everyone she knows, and soon she will learn that the Games Master is not just a name, and when he plays, he plays for keeps. An updated edition of the critically acclaimed novel, featuring the short story 'Orgy of the Blood Parasites' and a brand-new afterword by Kim Newman.

A brand new edition of Life's Lottery - an exciting speculative fiction novel that invites the reader to assume the role of the protagonist! A role-playing novel that reveals how small decisions can have monumental consequences. If you choose the right possibilities you may live a long happy life, or be immensely rich, or powerful, or win the lottery. If you make other choices you may become a murderer, die young, make every mistake possible, or make no impression on life at all. The choice is yours.

L'enfer, c'est la guerre... 1918. L'Europe est aux mains des vampires. Commandant en chef des armées d'Allemagne et d'Autriche-Hongrie, le comte Dracula a juré d'anéantir l'Angleterre. Mais le conflit opposant les grandes puissances est aussi une guerre entre les sang-chauds et les non-morts. Pris dans la mêlée, Charles Beauregard, ennemi de longue date de Dracula, son protégé Edwin Winthrop et l'intrépide journaliste vampire Kate Reed se mesurent à la terrible menace volante qu'est le Baron rouge sang... « Captivant et superbement documenté : ce roman plane au-dessus du genre. La suite encore meilleure d'Anno Dracula. » Kirkus Reviews « Un savoureux cocktail d'inventivité débridée, de pensée décalée et de subtile ironie. Incontournable. » The Guardian « Fascinant, délicieusement bizarre, sacrément bon. » Science Fiction Chronicle « Comment rendre la Première Guerre mondiale plus sinistre encore ? Ajoutez-y des vampires, comme Newman le fait avec tant de génie pour la suite d'Anno Dracula. » Booklist

The residents of a sleepy English village are dreaming—and their nightmares are turning into realities—in this “brilliantly nasty” horror novel from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Anno Dracula (Sunday Telegraph) Paul, a young academic composing a thesis about the end of the world, and his girlfriend have come to the tiny English village of Alder for the summer. Their idea of a rural retreat gradually sours as the laws of nature begin to break down around them . . . It would appear that the annual rock music festival held by the bizarre Agapemone sect is the only thing shattering the peace of Alder. But as the temperature rises, it becomes clear that the tiny village may not be the Heaven on Earth that their leader, Reverend Anthony Jago, is trying to create. Residents’ nightmares are coming true—unleashing creatures from local legend, science fiction, and the dark side of the human mind upon the town.

Packed with images of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history, this fully updated volume -- with reviews right up to 2013 -- traces the genre decade by decade, providing a witty and informative critique of more than 300 movies from all around the world, and TV series, too.