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Kim Newman
The Bloody Red BaronThe Bloody Red Baron
The QuorumThe Quorum
Anno DraculaAnno Dracula
JagoJago
Bad DreamsBad Dreams


Paperback - Pocket Books (1997)
The Bloody Red Baron
Dracula returns ... 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 Great Britain. Such is Dracula's desire for power and domination that it leads to WWI. Caught up in the conflict that follows are Charles Beauregard, hero of Anno Dracula, Edwin Winthrop, a young intelligence officer, Kate Reed, a radical vampire journalist, the resurrected Edgar Allan Poe, and the infamous Baron von Richthofen - feared flying monster.
Over the Western Front the living and the dead become embroiled in a war of ancient magic and modern science, of oppression and freedom. And as the Baron increases his score, the workings of nations and the struggles of individuals intersect, climaxing with a battle that takes place in the air and in the hearts of men.
‘A welcome return to this unusual alternate world. All Quiet on the Western Front was never this much fun and not half as bloody either’ SFX Magazine
‘Savour The Bloody Red Baron; it’s ingenious, darkly funny and in a macabre way quite charming. A considerable triumph’ The Dark Side
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Paperback - Pocket Books (1994)
The Quorum
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Supernatural horror and social satire mix equally in this dazzling relocation of the Faust legend to contemporary London. As the plot sweeps across the last thirty years, Kim Newman brilliantly captures the mood of each decade: from the swinging Sixties to the materialism of the Eighties, Now, in the Nineties, the era of having it all has had its day and the devil has come for his dues. And as The Quorum so icily demonstrates, there really are fates worse than death.
'Brilliant… tantalising. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail spellbinding' Time Out
'A frighteningly relevant commentary on the moral values of the past two decades… I think he's one of the best young horror writers in the business' Anne Billson
'The best thing he has done vet, a totally gripping horror fantasy' Lisa Tuttle
'Kim Newman's prose is a pleasure to read' Sunday Telegraph
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First British Edition Simon Schuster (1992)
Anno Dracula
In 1885, Count Dracula, after four hundred years' brooding in his Transylvanian castle, came to London, intent on spreading the pestilence of vampirism to the heart of Victoria's Britain. The monster was defeated and destroyed by Professor Van Helsing and his stout-hearted companions, and the world was saved from further horrors.
But what if Van Helsing failed, and Dracula's plan of conquest was successful...
In 1888, the Widow of Windsor has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. A new medieval era has arrived, with enemies of the crown impaled in front of Buckingham Palace. A vampire, Lord Ruthven, is Prime Minister, and another, Sir Francis Varney, Viceroy of India. The vampire population of London has increased enormously, and, while some still resist Dracula's breed, the bulk of the Queen's subjects are adjusting. Many actively seek conversion, hoping to advance themselves by joining the swelling ranks of the new-born un-dead.
But in Whitechapel, a murderer known as Silver Knife is cutting down vampire girls, and his crimes threaten to unsettle the new regime. While the police fail to catch the killer, two extraordinary individuals take an interest in the case: Geneviève Dieudonné, a vampire of a different breed striving as a charity worker to alleviate the poverty of the East End, and Charles Beauregard, an adventurer in the service of the mysterious Diogenes Club. These two, perhaps, can catch the Silver Knife, but both realize the case has implications far more important than the clearing-up of a string of unimportant killings.
This panoramic novel of altered history and literary speculation combines horror, mystery, romance, politics and wit, as Kim Newman brilliantly reinvents the familiar world of late Victorian melodrama, intermingling famous historical and fictional characters while penetrating the fog to discover the shocking truths.

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Paperback - Pocket Books (1997)
Jago
A long, hot summer – like no other
In end-of-the-century Alder, a sleepy Somerset village, people are dreaming - and their dreams are beginning to come true.
Paul, a young academic and his girlfriend, Hazel, have come to Alder to live and work. But their vision of an idyllic rural retreat is shattered as the laws of nature disintegrate around them. Fish sprout from trees. Villagers mutate. Mythical creatures prowl the streets at night. Evil thoughts are plucked from the minds of men and melded together into a terrifying force. Paul and Hazel are soon drawn into a vortex of fear as violent chaos engulfs the community. At the heart of the dark force is the spiritual leader of the Agapemone, a bizarre religious sect. He goes by the name of Reverend Anthony Jago.
A man who is trying to create Heaven on Earth. But he might just settle for Hell.
'Jago lifts and soars. Witty, savage and irreverent. A rich horror satire of our time' Peter James
'An epic of visionary horror, a nightmare comedy, a rollercoaster ride towards the apocalypse - and a great deal of fun to read' Ramsay Campbell
'Kim Newman's prose is a pleasure to read - flexible, pungent, and not overburdened with a sense of its own importance… Brilliantly nasty… Newman’s prose is a pleasure to read’' Sunday Telegraph
'... the author's ability to sustain a fever-pitch pace, and his familiarity with the wilder shores of pop culture, make for a roaring good read, as a broad cross-section of British society erupts into an orgy of irrational violence and sexual anarchy' The Times
'Jago is a novel of breathtaking imagination and impact. It propels you at breakneck speed, and just when you think there can be no more surprises, Newman pulls another from the bag' Starburst
'With Jago, Kim Newman shows himself to be one of the more promising of the younger British horror writers' Financial Times
'Kim Newman writes himself into the ranks of the big boys with Jago, an orgy of sex, splatterpunk and paranormal phenomena' Time Out
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Paperback - Pocket Books (1999)
Bad Dreams
In the dark before dawn, between dreams and death, enter a nightmare zone.
For Anne Nielson, London is fast turning from dream city to nightmare. Almost unawares she is sucked into an underworld hell-hole of suburban sleaze merchants, degenerate drug dealers and sadistic 'entertainments' held by chic decadents with prestigious addresses.
But this is nothing compared with meeting the monster, who festers at the centre of his own twisted, but highly lucid, dream. He is the immortal life-taker, the creator, the destroyer, the manipulator of all that Anne experiences.
He is death cooled down below freezing...
'No chance of sleeping peacefully after reading Bad Dreams ... Newman has written a vindaloo of a gross-out ... Dream piles on dream, in an acid-house freak show. Low life gets no lower. Drugs, fable, legend, fantasy, masochism... It stays, seeping through the pages' Sunday Times
'The author enjoys himself aiming witty barbs at thinly disguised cultural icons, and dissects the Me Decade with unhealthy relish. As much fun to read as it evidently was to write' The Times
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