Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and more broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. ... For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... “Horror story” redirects here. ... Charles Albert Browning, Jr. ... Dracula is a 1931 horror film produced by Universal Pictures Co. ... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for superior achievement in horror writing. ... The International Horror Guild (originally the International Horror Critics Guild) was created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy. ... The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) annually presents four awards (though numbers have differed in previous years) based on a vote of BSFA members and recently also members of the Eastercon. ... First awarded in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are handed out annually at the World Fantasy Convention (WFC) to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. ...

He was born in London and raised in Aller, Somerset. He was educated at Dr. Morgan's Grammar School in Bridgwater, and set his experimental semi-autobiographical novel Life's Lottery (1999) in a fictionalised version of the town called Sedgwater. He studied English at the University of Sussex. Early in his career, Newman was a journalist on the City Limits listings magazine and Knave. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Old Pound Inn, Aller Aller is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated five miles west of Somerton on the A372 road towards Bridgwater in the South Somerset district. ... This article is about the county of Somerset in England. ... , Bridgwater in Somerset, England, is a market town, the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and the leading industrial town in the county. ... This article is about the year. ... The University of Sussex (also known colloquially as Sussex Uni) is an English campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is four miles from Brighton. ... City Limits Magazine was founded in 1981 in London by former staffers of Time Out. ... Knave magazine is a long-established British pornographic magazine, published by Galaxy Publications. ...

Non-fiction

Newman's first two books were both non-fiction and go some way to demonstrating his range. Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (1985), co-written with his friend Neil Gaiman, is a light-hearted tribute to entertainingly bad prose in fantastic fiction. Nightmare Movies: A critical history of the horror film, 1968-88 (1988) is a serious history of horror films. Neil Richard Gaiman () (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. ...

Nightmare Movies was followed by Wild West Movies: Or How the West Was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten (1990) and Millennium Movies: End of the World Cinema (1999). Newman's non-fiction also includes the BFI Companion to Horror (1996) and Horror: 100 Best Books (co-editor, 1988), which won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for superior achievement in horror writing. ... Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year. ...

Newman acts as one of several contributing editors to the UK film magazine Empire. He also contributes to Rotten Tomatoes, Venue and Sight & Sound. Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Venue is the whats on magazine for the Bristol and Bath areas of the UK. It was founded in 1982 by journalists who had been working for another Bristol magazine, Out West, which had been consciously modelled on Londons Time Out magazine. ... Sight & Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ...

Fiction

A recurring feature of Newman's fiction is his fondness for reinterpreting historical figures (particularly from the entertainment industry) and other authors' characters in new settings, either realistic alternate-history or outright fantasy. Some of these characters (e.g. Dracula) are easily recognised. Many more, particularly minor characters, are deliberately obscured and may be considered Easter eggs for perceptive readers. A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ...

Novels

Newman's first published novel was The Night Mayor (1989), set in a virtual reality based on old black-and-white detective movies. In the same year, as "Jack Yeovil", he began contributing to a series of novels published by Games Workshop, set in the world of their Warhammer and Dark Future wargaming and role-playing games. Games Workshop's fiction imprint Black Flame returned the Dark Future books to print in 2006, publishing Demon Download, Krokodil Tears and an expanded, 250-page version of the short story "Route 666". There are no plans for Newman to return to finish the series. Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the simulation technology. ... For the defunct company, see Game Designers Workshop. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Dark Future is a game by Games Workshop. ... Glory, an American Civil War game by GMT This article is about the civilian hobby. ... This article is about games in which one plays the role of a character. ... Black Flame is an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books. ...

Newman's most famous novel is Anno Dracula, published in 1992. The novel is set in 1888, during Jack the Ripper's killing spree — but a different 1888 to the one we know, in which Dracula succeeded in becoming the ruler of England. In the novel, fictional characters — not only from Dracula, but also from other works of Victorian era fiction — appear alongside historical persons. One major character, the vampire Geneviève Dieudonné, had previously appeared (in a different setting) in his Warhammer novels. (Newman has stated there are three alternate versions of Geneviève: the Warhammer version, the Anno Dracula version, and a Diogenes Club version who appears in the Seven Stars collection of linked stories.) The Anno-Dracula series by Kim Newman is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which vampires are a common and more-or-less accepted part of society (as a result of Draculas reign in England, depicted in Anno_Dracula, the first in the series). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... This article is about the novel. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...

Anno Dracula was followed by a series of novels and shorter works that followed the same alternative history, including The Bloody Red Baron (set in World War I), and Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (titled Dracula Cha Cha Cha in the UK). Some of the short stories are available online; see below. The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which vampires are a common and more-or-less accepted part of society (as a result of Draculas successful conquest of England, depicted in Anno Dracula, the first in the series). ...

Other novels include Life's Lottery (1999), in which the protagonist's life story is determined by the reader's choices (an adult version of the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books), The Quorum (1994), Jago (1991), and Bad Dreams (1990). Lifes Lottery is a science fiction novel written by Kim Newman in 1999. ... This article is about the year. ... The Cave of Time, the first Choose Your Own Adventure book. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

He has written a Doctor Who novella, Time and Relative, which was published by Telos in 2001. For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ... The Telos Doctor Who novellas are a series of spin-off novellas based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who officially licensed by the BBC and published by Telos Publishing. ... Time and Relative is an original novella written by Kim Newman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Short stories

Newman is also a prolific writer of short stories; his first published story was "Dreamers", which appeared in Interzone in 1982. His short story collections include The Original Dr. Shade, and Other Stories (1994), Famous Monsters (1995), Seven Stars (2000), Where the Bodies are Buried (2000), Unforgivable Stories (2000), and The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006). There is also Back in the USSA (1997), a collection of stories co-written with Eugene Byrne, set in an alternate history where the United States had a communist revolution in the early twentieth century and Russia didn't. Interzone is a British science fiction and fantasy magazine, published since 1982. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Back in the USSA (ISBN 0-929480-84-8) is a collection of short stories by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman published in 1997 by Mark V. Ziesing Books. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Eugene Byrne is an English fiction writer. ... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Many of his stories--notably those collected in Seven Stars and The Man from the Diogenes Club--feature agents of the Diogenes Club, the gentlemen's club created by Arthur Conan Doyle for the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter". In Newman's stories, it is a cover for a top-secret establishment of the British government, described as "an institution that quietly existed to cope with matters beyond the purview of regular police and intelligence services". The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemans club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, most notably The Greek Interpreter. It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (although this is never expanded upon in the original stories) and was co... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859–7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. ...

One particular sequence focuses on the adventures during the 1970s of psychic investigator Richard Jeperson; the stories homage various aspects of '70s British culture through adventures reminiscent of '70s television series such as The Avengers and Department S. (A version of the Diogenes Club also appears in the Anno Dracula series, complete with alternative version of Jeperson. The Diogenes Club series, conversely, sometimes includes alternative versions of characters who first appeared in the Anno Dracula series.) The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Richard Jeperson is a fictional 1970s psychic investigator created by British horror / fantasy author Kim Newman. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... Department S was a British espionage/science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. ...

The short story "Famous Monsters", in which a Martian left over from the invasion in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds gets a job in Hollywood, was included on an information package sent to Mars by a US-Russian probe in 1994. In The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells describes the Martians as octopus-like creatures; the body consists of only a head with eyes, v-shaped lipless beak-like mouth, and two brunches with a total of 16 tentacles. ... The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ... ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ...

Bibliography

Novels

• The Night Mayor (1989)
• Bad Dreams (1990)
• Jago (1991)
• The Quorum (1994)
• Life's Lottery (1999)

• Anno Dracula series
  • Anno Dracula (1992)
  • The Bloody Red Baron (1995)
  • Dracula Cha Cha Cha (also published as Judgment of Tears) (1998)
  • Johnny Alucard

As "Jack Yeovil" Lifes Lottery is a science fiction novel written by Kim Newman in 1999. ... The Anno-Dracula series by Kim Newman is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which vampires are a common and more-or-less accepted part of society (as a result of Draculas reign in England, depicted in Anno_Dracula, the first in the series). ...

• Warhammer setting
  • Drachenfels
  • Beasts in Velvet
  • Genevieve Undead (three novellas published as a single book)
  • Silver Nails (short stories)
  • The Vampire Genevieve (compilation of the above four books)
• Dark Future setting
  • Krokodil Tears
  • Demon Download
  • Route 666
  • Comeback Tour
• Orgy of the Blood Parasites

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External links

• The Kim Newman Web Site — official site
• Stories online
  • On Newman's website
    • Who Dares, Wins (A-D alternate history: the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege, with vampires [and transferred to the Romanian embassy])
    • Coastal City (how shifting continuities in comics universes affect the people in them, from their point of view)
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    • The Pierce-Arrow Stalled, and... (alternate history: Hollywood without the Hays Code — Mae West and Errol Flynn as we never saw them, but as Nature intended)
    • The McCarthy Witch Hunt (alternate history: McCarthyism as a hunt for actual witches, featuring one Samantha Stevens)
    • Coppola's Dracula (A-D alternate history: the making of Apocalypse Now à la Hearts of Darkness, with vampires)
  • Hosted by Sci Fiction
    • Tomorrow Town (Diogenes Club agents investigate a murder in a community created in imitation of the gleaming future depicted in 1960s scifi)
    • Soho Golem (Diogenes Club agents investigate the murders of a string of Soho vice lords by apparently supernatural means)
    • The Serial Murders (Diogenes Club agents investigate a soap opera which affects reality)
    • Castle in the Desert (A-D alternate history: Raymond Chandler, with vampires)
  • Hosted by bbc.co.uk:
    • Mildew Manor, or The Italian Smile (parody of gothic horror)
    • A Shambles in Belgravia (Professor Moriarty vs. Irene Adler)
  • The Wandering Christian (with Eugene Byrne; alternate history: Constantine loses the Battle of Milvian Bridge; without him, Christianity and the Roman Empire collapse. The story is also a take on the legend of the Wandering Jew)
• The Kim Newman Archive — an ongoing project to archive all of Newman's film related writings.
• Kim Newman at the Internet Movie Database