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Kim Newman is the author of Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (2017), Wild West Movies, Or, How the West was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten (1990), The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2007), Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland #3 (2011), The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (2015).

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Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories

release date: Jan 24, 2017
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories
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.

Wild West Movies, Or, How the West was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten

release date: Jan 01, 1990
Wild West Movies, Or, How the West was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten
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.

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
From the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain''s police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more of the secrets of the British Empire''s most secret service.

Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland #3

release date: Jun 01, 2011
Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland #3
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_!

The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

release date: Oct 20, 2015
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
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.

The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School

release date: Oct 23, 2018
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
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.

Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

release date: Oct 04, 2011
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
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.

Anno Dracula #5

release date: Aug 09, 2017
Anno Dracula #5
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...

Horror

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Horror
Packed with photographs of some terrifying scenes in cinema history, this comprehensive guide traces the story of horror, decade-by-decade, and provides a critique of over 250 films, plus any TV series and literature that informed them.

Genevieve Undead

release date: May 28, 2019
Genevieve Undead
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.

Bound in Blood

release date: Sep 10, 2024
Bound in Blood
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!

Time and Relative

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Time and Relative
Voted best Doctor Who book of 2001 by the readers of Doctor Who magazine

Silver Nails

release date: Jul 09, 2019
Silver Nails
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.

Judgment of Tears

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Bloody Red Baron

release date: Jan 01, 1996
Bloody Red Baron
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.

Le baron rouge sang

release date: Jan 25, 1999
Le baron rouge sang
1918. L''Europe est aux mains des vampires. Commandant en chef des armées allemandes le comte Dracula a juré d''anéantir l''Angleterre, tandis qu''Edgar Poe rédige les mémoires du Baron Rouge. On croise aussi Mata Hari, Kafka et un petit caporal au front barré d''une mèche brune, qui salue en tendant le bras... " L''auteur pratique l''intertextualité en virtuose et apporte au mythe vampirique une grande goulée de sang frais. " (Le Monde) " Si vous ne deviez posséder qu''un livre sur ce sujet, en dehors du Dracula de Stocker, il faut assurément que ce soit celui-ci. " (Science-Fiction Magazine)
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