Kim Newman

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Unforgivable Stories

Seven Stars

Dracula Cha Cha Cha

pbk 08 May 01

Life's Lottery

Millennium Movies

Background to Anno Dracula

Jay Russell Interviews Kim Newman

WebPage: http://indigo.ie/~imago/newman.html#Lab

Books By Kim Newman

About the Author

Bibliography

British Pbk Original - Pocket Books (2000)

Unforgivable Stories
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, this familiar universe is 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…

British Pbk Original - Pocket Books (2000)

Seven Stars
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
In Seven Stars, Kim Newman tells a story that spans thousands of years and takes us from the desert sands of Egypt through fog-bound Victorian London, sun-struck wartime Los Angeles, the paisley-pattern inferno of the early 1970s and the post-2000 confusion of the present day and beyond ...
This dazzling collection of barbed, pulp-style adventure, horror and mystery stories weaves together the threads of much of his work, including the novels Anno Dracula, The Quorum and Life's Lottery and the earlier collections The Original Dr Shade and Famous Monsters. Five stories introduce us to a succession of heroes and villains who all take part in the multi-episode novella Seven Stars. A blend of pulp, satire, terror and romance, this book proves that the stars have not yet set.
'A handy package of media savvy fun, including his acute cautionary tales of the movie industry' Time Out on Famous Monsters
'Rich and revealing' Time Out on Life’s Lottery

Paperback - Pocket Books (2001)

First British Edition Simon Schuster (2000)

Dracula Cha Cha Cha
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
Anno Dracula 1959
Rome, 1959. Remember? The Via Veneto, la dolce vita. Coins in the fountain, trysts in cafes, midnight bacchanals, parties till dawn. We danced giddily to the music of the Dracula Cha Cha Cha.
Jet setters, intellectuals, artists, film stars, socialites, vampires - everyone who was anyone among the living and the undead was making the scene in the External City that year. Celebrities rollicked; warm blood flowed. Paparazzi were flashing bulbs everywhere, and the vampire press had gathered to cover the upcoming social event of at least several centuries: the October wedding of Vlad, Count Dracula, in Italian exile from Transylvania, to the Moldavian princess Asa Vajda. Rumour had it that the marriage marked the first step in the vampire king's campaign to restore his power and position as Lord of the Undead.
Vampire star reporter Kate was there. She got detoured in her pursuit of a scoop on the royal couple not by coins but by corpses in the Fontana di Trevi. All over Rome, in fact, vampire elders were falling in the gory path of a flamboyant murderer known only as the Crimson Executioner. Undead British secret agent Bond, a vampire with a license to kill, was called in on the case, but ultimately the fates of all of us - the lovers, knaves, monsters, and revelers, as well as Count Dracula himself - were determined by the ancient-of-ancients Mater Lachrymarum: child, saint, harlot, crone, and Italy's own Mother of Tears.
You don't remember? Once you've read Kim Newman's blood-chilling new volume, which continues the vampire history of his Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron, you will never forget.
Dracula Cha Cha Cha sees the reunion of the previous protagonists of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series, together with a fascinating and iconic array of characters. From the unscrupulous American Tom Ripley, to a vampiric Commander Bond, from actor/director/story-teller Orson Welles to the Mater Lachrymarum - a spirit even older than the Lord of the Undead himself.
‘He writes with sparkling verve and peppers the text with cinematic and literary references. Dracula Cha Cha Cha has full rations of gore, shocks and sty laughs’ The Times
`Engaging, breathlessly clever’ SFX
‘Newman is endlessly inventive in his creation of this world and deeply touching in his characterisation’ Dreamwatch
Praise for the Anno Dracula Series
'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read' Washington Post Book World
'Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats' San Francisco Chronicle
'Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year' Seattle Times
'A major novel, original in concept, witty and inventive in execution' Science Fiction Chronicle
Praise for Kim Newman
'Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail spellbinding' Time Out
'Newman delivers a splendid congeries of fact fiction and nightmare' Daily Mail

First British Edition Simon Schuster (1999)

Paperback - Pocket Books (2000)

Life's Lottery

My friend, you have a choice. Of course, you have a choice. You can go this way or that. You can call heads or tails. You can have coffee or tea.

And a decision will change your life. Any decision.
Life's Lottery is an entirely new kind of novel, an interactive fiction which invites the reader to become the central character - Keith Marion, an ordinary Englishman - and make choices with him, from childhood through adolescence to maturity and beyond. You may choose your friends, education, partners, job, habits, obsessions, family, future, life.
You may follow your own instincts, choosing as you the reader would choose faced with the possibilities offered Keith; or you may pull back and make decisions for him on the basis of what would be the most interesting (if not comfortable) turn of the plot. You may experiment with options you would not wish for in your own life or you can try to always do the right thing.
It is a novel you can play like a game, read like a book or live like. a life. An advantage you have over Keith is that you can always turn back and follow a different path, traveling each fork of every road.
It is a novel you can explore like a jungle, cultivate like a garden or live in like a house. Each reader's experience of Life's Lottery will be unique and personal. Once you open the book, Keith Marion's story becomes yours.
If you have the spirit, go to 1. If you walk away, go to 0.
'Kim Newman's clever interactive novel is as rich and as revealing as you care to make it. If you will, cast about, try on different personalities, different moralities for size' Time Out
'Kim Newman has kept the interactive ethos closer to his heart with his novel Life's Lottery. With its publication, a decisive blow will be struck for keeping the book a paper-based product, albeit with a twist' The Times
'Curiously unsettling but always gripping, Life's Lottery is like nothing you have ever read' The Times

British Pbk Original - Titan Books (1999)

Millennium Movies
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
It's the end of the world.
Again
Between the giant monsters of Them!, the Martians of War of the Worlds, the asteroids of Armageddon and, of course, Dr Strangelove's Bomb, the end of the world has been a regular cinematic occurrence.
With the new millennium looming, bestselling author and critic Kim Newman takes a timely look at a century of paranoid cinema. Examining our obsession with nuclear Doomsday from the patriotism of World War Two, through the frightened fifties and antinuclear films of the sixties, right up to the Bomb's key role in recent Hollywood blockbusters -- Newman covers films as diverse as Deep Impact, The War Game and Teenage Caveman.
The essential end-of-the-century guide to end-of-the-world movies, Millennium Movies is a fascinating survey of over ten decades of destruction, desolation and devastation.
Earlier praise for Him Newman:
'Kim Newman's prose is a pleasure to read' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail spellbinding' Time Out
'Erudite but viciously witty' Daily Telegraph

About The Author
Kim Newman is a highly respected film writer and broadcaster, well known for his regular appearances on television and radio. He is the author of The BFI Companion to Horror (ed), and is also a multi award-winning, best-selling horror novelist, an enthusiastic pundit of SF writing, and one of Britain's great eccentrics.
Born in Brixton in 1959, he grew up in Somerset, graduated in English at Sussex University, before coming to London in 1980 working with the Bridgwater Arts and Entertainment Collective as a Kazoo player and cabaret performer. He is the author of several specialist film books and is a regular film reviewer for Empire and Sight And Sound magazines.
Kim has published several highly successful novels: The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, The Quorum, Life's Lottery and his earlier reworkings of the Dracula mythology Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron plus three collections of short stories: Famous Monsters, The Original Dr Shade and Seven Stars.
Anno Dracula won the Children of the Night Award for Best Novel from the Dracula Society and the Best Novel Award from the Lord Ruthven Assembly. It was also a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. The Quorum, Dr Shade and Anno Dracula have all been optioned for movies.
Kim is currently working on a new novel An English Ghost Story, and with Eugene Byrne, a novel cycle entitled The Matter of Britain. He also promises to continue the Anno Dracula sequence of novels. He lives in Islington, north London and has written 8 1/2 novels.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Andy Warhol's Dracula: Binary 2 (Gollancz Millenium Pbk, 2000)

Unforgivable Stories (Pocket Books Pbk, 2000)

Seven Stars Short Stories (Pocket Books Pbk, 2000)

Dracula Cha Cha Cha (Simon Schuster, 2000) Pocket Books Pbk May 01

Cat People (Simon & Schuster Audio, 1999)

Life's Lottery (Simon Schuster, 1999) Pocket Books Pbk Aug 00

Millennium Movies (Titan Books Pbk, 1999)

BFI Companion to Horror (Cassell, 1996)

The Bloody Red Baron (Simon Schuster, 1996) Pocket Books Pbk 1997

Famous Monsters Short Stories (Pocket Books, 1995)

The Original Dr Shade, and Other Stories Short Stories (Pocket Books, 1994)

The Quorum (Simon Schuster, 1994) Pocket Books Pbk 1994

Anno Dracula (Simon Schuster, 1992)

Jago (Simon Schuster, 1991) Pocket Books Pbk 1997

Wild West Movies (Bloomsbury, 1990)

Bad Dreams (Simon Schuster, 1990) Pocket Books Pbk 1999

The Night Mayor (Simon Schuster, 1989) Pocket Books Pbk 1999

Horror: 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988) (with Stephen Jones)

Nightmare Movies (Harmony Books Pbk, 1988)

Ghastly Beyond Belief (Arrow, 1985) (with Neil Gaiman)