New Releases by Kim Newman

Praise for Anno Dracula: "Kim Newman''s Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it''s still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman "Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman''s prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out “Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them… Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.” - New York Times “Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - Seattle Times “Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - San Francisco Chronicle ''A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read'' - Washington Post Book World "The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. ''Ultimate'' seems an apt description... Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory." - Locus "A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed." - The Independent "Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end." - Ain''t It Cool "Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre''s ongoing revolution." - Paul McAuley "Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn''t be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It''s a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count." - Christopher Fowler "The most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction!" - RexRobotReviews -- WAR IS HELL... It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies ofGermany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europeis also a war between the living and the undead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protegé Edwin Winthrop,and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron... In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Geneviève Dieudonné,newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club. A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Barontakes the story into the 20th century.

Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Prof. James Moriarty - wily, snake- like, fiercely intelligent, unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian ''Basher'' Moran - violent,politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike. Unravelling mysteries -- all for their own gain. A spin-off from Titan''s highly successful Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, The Hound of the D''Urbervilles sees acclaimed novelist Kim Newman (Anno Dracula) take on the fiendish Professor Moriarty.

Local officials present a fa̤ade of normalcy, but the Witchfinder knows there's something wrong with the denizens of Unland, and he's starting to uncover what that has to do with the dying founder of the town and the elixir he invented that put the town on the map . . . * Created by Mike Mignola! * From the pages of _Hellboy_!

Edward Grey is sent to Hallam to investigate a mysterious death. Once there, he hears rumors about the mysterious Unland, the wetlands around the town, and the creatures that inhabit it. Grey's skepticism vanishes when he encounters the monsters of Unland, and he realizes that Hallam is a place of secrets. * Mike Mignola's _Witchfinder_! * Featuring art by Eisner winner Tyler Crook (_Bad Blood_, _B.P.R.D._)! * From the pages of _Hellboy_!

The classic volume of cult film criticism, now brought completely up-to-date ''Encyclopaedic, insightful, and entertaining - no bookshelf should be without Newman''s frighteningly readable Nightmare Movies'' Mark Kermode

Hommage à l'âge d'or des films de gangsters américains par le biais des réalités virtuelles. [SDM].

Ten tales of the ghastly and the macabre by award-winning author Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, Bloody Red Baron). Stories include: A Drug on the Market, Tomorrow Town, The Original Dr Shade, Famous Monsters, and Organ Donors.

Voted best Doctor Who book of 2001 by the readers of Doctor Who magazine

From the giant ants of "Them!" to the Martians of "War of the Worlds", the asteroids of "Armageddon" and Dr. Strangelove's beloved bomb (Hi there!), the end of the world has been a mainstay of the movies.Kim Newman provides the ultimate look at 20th-century paranoid cinema. Examining our obsessions with Doomsday, Newman ranges from the patriotism of World War II through the frightened '50s and the anti-nuke films of the '60s and '70s, right up to the Bomb's role in recent blockbusters. Such diverse films as "Deep Impact", "The War Game", "Teenage Caveman",and "Independence Day" are covered with wit and insight.

Some things are so wrong that they can never be put right, never atoned for, never let lie. These are unforgivable stories. In this collection, Kim Newman re-opens some of the great closed cases of fantasy and horror fiction, returning us to the worlds of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Edgar Allan Poe, the Victorian Ghost story, and Count Dracula. In each case, these familiar universes are altered, shown in a new, unusual light. Here, we visit a 1960s Britain that is bogged down in a war in Indo-China, an American city that has been home to the four-coloured heroes and villains of generations of comic books, a Paris of Bogart and Bergman and other fantastical archetypes, and a frontier where there's no law west of Bristol but the gun and the iron horse. Including stories written in collaboration with novelists Eugene Byrne (THiGMOO) and Paul J. McAuley (Fairyland), this collection touches on all the horrors and humours Kim Newman has explored in novels like Anno Dracula, The Quorum and Life's Lottery. Unforgivable, but also unforgettable ...

As the world's most beautiful and stylish folks descend on Rome at the turn of the decade, the king of vampires takes a new bride, but the celebrations will be dampened by the arrival of a vampire killer who will prove that even the undead can be slain. Reprint. 19,000 first printing.

As a six-year-old in the school playground you are asked to choose your favourite ''Man From Uncle'' character: Napoleon Solo or Illya Kuriakin? If you choose the latter you are small, quiet and sensitive, prone to screaming fits and bullied. If the former, you join a gang, can look after yourself, become a successful businessman, get married. You make the choices, the story is your life. LIFE''S LOTTERY is a novel you can play like a game, read like a book or live like a life.

Expelled from Britain, Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary, but Lord Ruthven, his former disciple, remains Prime Minister of England, and soon their rivalry leads to war.

While Graf von Dracula commands the German army and Baron von Richthofen spreads terror in the skies during World War I, a resurrected Edgar Allan Poe is commissioned by the Germans to write a fabulous biography of the Red Baron.

From his acclaimed study of horror films, Nightmare Movies, Kim Newman turns his attention to the western. Against the backdrop of American history, popular mythology and the development of the cinema, the book examines the main themes and tensions of the genre. With reference to thousands of films and hundreds of directors and actors Newman brings his entertaining, wide-ranging and authoritative approach to bear on one of the cinema's most popular genres - with illuminating results.