New Releases by Kim Newman

More spine-tingling tales of Lovecraftian horror inspired by the classic novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth—with stories from Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, and more Respected horror anthologist Stephen Jones edits this collection of 17 stories inspired by the 20th century’s master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, in which a young man goes to an isolated, desolate fishing village in Massachusetts, and finds that the entire village has interbred with strange creatures that live beneath the sea, and worship ancient gods. “Introduction: Weirder Shadows…” by Stephen Jones “The Port” by H.P. Lovecraft “Innsmouth Bane” by John Glasby “Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in ‘The Case of the French Spy’” by Kim Newman “Innsmouth Clay” by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth “The Archbishop’s Well” by Reggie Oliver “You Don’t Want to Know” by Adrian Cole “Fish Bride” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “The Hag Stone” by Conrad Williams “On the Reef” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “The Song of Sighs” by Angela Slatter “The Same Deep Waters as You” by Brian Hodge “The Winner” by Ramsey Campbell “The Transition of Elizabeth Has Kings” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “The Chain” by Michael Marshall Smith “Into the Water” by Simon Kurt Unsworth “Rising, Not Dreaming” by Angela Slatter “The Long Last Night” by Brian Lumley

A World Fantasy Award-winning editor brings together the works of today’s most talented Lovecraftian writers in this horror anthology inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth For decades, H. P. Lovecraft''s masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today''s most prominent and well-respected horror authors—the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes. Included is Lovecraft''s own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. "Introduction: Weird Shadows..." by Stephen Jones "Discarded Draft of ''The Shadows Over Innsmouth''" by H. P. Lovecraft "The Quest for Y''ha-nthlei" by John Glasby "Brackish Waters" by Richard A. Lupoff "Voices in the Water" by Basil Copper "Another Fish Story" by Kim Newman "Take Me to the River" by Paul McAuley "The Coming" by Hugh B. Cave "Eggs" by Steve Rasnic Tem "From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6" by Caitlín R. Kiernan "Raised by the Moon" by Ramsey Campbell "Fair Exchange" by Michael Marshall Smith "The Taint" by Brian Lumley

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.

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

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.

The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman. "Compulsory reading... glorious" Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building in the shape of a giant mechanical dragon - in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance, culture and innovation. After a century overshadowed by the malign presence of Dracula, Christina decrees the inauguration of an Age of Light. The world is connected as never before by technology, and conquests have been made in cyberspace that mark out new nations of the living and the undead. But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls, intent on ensuring that the brave new world dies before it can come to fruition. The distinguished guests are held hostage by cyberpunk terrorists, yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries. Vampire schoolgirl Nezumi - sword-wielding agent of the Diogenes Club - finds herself alone, pitted against the world''s deadliest creatures. Thrown out of the party, she must fight her way back up through a building that seems designed to destroy her in a thousand ways. Can Nezumi survive past midnight? Can the hopes of a shining world?

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.

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.

From the best selling world of Kim Newman''s Anno Dracula comes this all-new comic book sequel to his best selling novel, Anno Dracula. Features a foreword by Hellboy’s Mike Mignola! It is 1895, Count Dracula is Prince Regent and undisputed ruler of the British Empire, his power is supreme and unchecked. The curse of vampirism has spread far and wide through all levels of society and through all ranks of the British government. Now, on the verge of Dracula''s 10th Anniversary of rule, anti-Dracula forces in the guise of the Council of the Seven Days are gathering. The Council - a secret cabal of free radicals, made up of vampires and humans alike have sworn to overthrow the Crown Prince of Darkness at any cost. They plan to sabotage the Jubilee with a devastating bomb attack. Now vampire journalist Kate Reed must uncover the truth and unmask the true conspirators behind the sinister plot or risk plunging both human and vampire kind into ruin and disaster from which no side will recover...

“There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong...” In 1899 Geneviève Dieudonné travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled from Great Britain by Prince Dracula. They are allowed to settle in Yōkai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan’s own vampires, an altogether strange and less human breed than the nosferatu of Europe. Yet it is not the sanctuary they had hoped for, as a vicious murderer sets vampire against vampire, and Yōkai Town is revealed to be more a prison than a refuge. Geneviève and her undead comrades will be forced to face new enemies and the horrors hidden within the Temple of One Thousand Monsters…

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...

Vampiric journalist Kate Reed is a member of a secret cabal of anarchists called the Council of the Seven Days who have sworn to overthrow the despotic rule of the Prince Regent, Count Dracula. However when Kate learns of Council''s plot to bomb Dracula''s planned Tin Jubilee celebrations and the subsequent backlash that action would unleash she is forced to make a decision. One that could make her the enemy of not only the Council, the State but also her best friend, Penelope Churchwood, the mastermind behind the celebration. But with the clock ticking, Kate must act before it is too late...

Whilst London prepares to celebrate Prince Dracula’s 10th anniversary, his secret police force, The Grey Men are purging the streets of any and all political malcontents and miscreants, including the Council of Seven Days – an anarchist cell. Meanwhile, vampiric journalist Kate Reed and the surviving members of the Council are now running for the lives following a police raid on their headquarters and are unaware that the Grey Men have secreted one of their own among their dwindling membership. Moreover, Kate’s friend, Penny Churchward – who has been summoned to the Tower of London to be appointed overseer of the Jubilee celebrations, has stumbled into the presence of an ancient, unbelievably-evil, undead vampire legend that rumor has it frightens even Prince Dracula himself…

When the inaugural meeting of the Council of Seven Days is raided by Dracula''s feared secret police, Kate Reed is rescued by Fah Lo Suee, daughter of the mysterious crime lord known only by some as the Lord of Strange Deaths. Meanwhile Penelope Churchward visits the Tower of London to meet the infamous, Graf von Orlock, Dracula''s supreme bogey man.

1895. Prince Dracula has ruled Great Britain for ten years, spreading vampirism through every level of society. On the eve of Dracula’s Jubilee, radical forces gather to oppose the tyrant. Kate Reed, vampire journalist and free-thinker, takes a seat on the revolutionary Council of Seven Days, though she learns that the anarchist group harbors a traitor in its midst. The Grey Men, Dracula’s dreaded secret police, have been ordered to quash all resistance to the rule of the arch-vampire. With intrigue on all sides, the scene is set for an explosive addition to the Anno Dracula series. An all-new comic series based on the best-selling Anno Dracula novels by Kim Newman! Comic series written by creator Kim Newman with art by Paul McCaffrey (The Third Doctor).

« 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...

Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn’t any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer. It is the near future and old-fashioned movies, or “flatties”, have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by professional Dreamers. When infamous criminal Truro Daine escapes imprisonment, he flees into the City, an artificial world of his own creation, where he rules as the all-powerful Night Mayor. Now, detective Dreamer Tom Tunney and Susan Bishopric, author of romance Dreams, must join forces to track him down. But how do you hunt the Night Mayor in a city populated by a dense crowd of strangely familiar characters, where it’s always two-thirty in the morning, shots never kill and the creator is omnipresent in every drop of falling rain…?

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.

**The _shocking_ truth of Unland!** Sir Edward Grey digs deeper into the shocking truth about Unland even as the city drowns in the rising waters. With the help of a mysterious woman, Grey faces raging waters and the eel assassins that have haunted his every step! * Written by horror fiction legend Kim Newman (_Anno Dracula_)! * From the pages of _Hellboy_!

ABOUT THIS BOOK... In 1961, Derek Leech emerges fully formed from the polluted River Thames, destined to found a global media empire. In 1978, three ambitious young men strike a deal with Leech. They are offered wealth, glamour, and success, but a price must be paid. In 1994, Leech''s purpose moves to its conclusion, and as the men struggle, they realize to truth of the ultimate price.

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.

Le Comte Dracula n''est pas mort à la fin du roman de Bram Stroker. Il a épousé la Reine Victoria, et règne sur la Grande-Bretagne. Le vampirisme se répand dans toutes les strates de la population, et les humains normaux sont mal vus. Dans cette version de Londres du XIXe siècle, des prostituées vampires se font assassiner par un mystérieux homme aux scalpels d''argent. Au coeur de l''enquête se croisent le Dr Jekyll, Moriarty, Fu Manchu, le club Diogène...

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. Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...