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Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternative history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the BSFA award. Early life Kim Newman was born 31 July 1959 in Brixton, London, the son of Bryan Michael Newman and Julia Christen Newman, both potters. His sister, Sasha, was born in 1961, and their mother died in 2003. Newman attended "a progressive kindergarten and a primary school in Brixton, and then Huish Episcopi County Primary School in Langport, Somerset". In 1966 the family moved to Aller, Somerset. He was educated at Dr. Morgan's Grammar School for Boys in Bridgwater. While he attended, the school merged with two others to become Haygrove Comprehensive. He graduated from the University of Sussex with an English degree in 1980 and set a short story, Angel Down, Sussex (1999) in the area. Newman acted in school plays and with the Bridgwater Youth Theatre. Non-fiction Early in his career, Newman was a journalist for the magazines City Limits and Knave. Newman's first two books were the non-fiction Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (1985), co-written with his friend Neil Gaiman, a light-hearted tribute to entertainingly bad prose in fantastic fiction and Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film, 1968–88 (1988) is a serious history of horror films. An expanded edition, an update of his overview of post-1968 genre cinema, was published in 2011. 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). Newman and Stephen Jones jointly edited Horror: 100 Best Books, the 1988 horror volume in Xanadu's 100 Best series and Horror: Another 100 Best Books, a 2005 sequel from Carroll & Graf, U.S. publisher of the series. The books comprise 100 essays by 100 horror writers about 100 horror books and both won the annual Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.Newman is a contributing editor to the UK film magazine Empire, as well as writing the monthly segment, "Kim Newman's Video Dungeon" in which he gives often scathing reviews of recently released straight-to-video horror films. He contributes to Rotten Tomatoes, Venue, Video Watchdog ('The Perfectionist's Guide to Fantastic Video') and Sight and Sound. Newman is the author of the Doctor Who entry in the British Film Institute's book series on TV Classics. In 2018, Newman became the chief writer on the BBC Four documentary series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema. Newman participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, A Canterbury Tale, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Citizen Kane, Duck Amuck, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Mulholland Drive, Notorious, and To Have and Have Not. Fiction 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, Comeback Tour and the expanded, 250-page version of the short story "Route 666". Anno Dracula was published in 1992. The novel is set in 1888, during Jack the Ripper's killing spree—but a different 1888, in which Dracula became the ruler of England. Anno Dracula was followed by the Anno Dracula series of novels and shorter works, that followed the same alternative history. The fourth novel in the series was published in 2013 as Johnny Alucard.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). Newman wrote a Doctor Who novella, Time and Relative in 2001. Selected fiction 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: Anno Dracula 1959) (1998) Johnny Alucard (2013) One Thousand Monsters (2017) Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju (2019) Time and Relative (2001) An English Ghost Story (2014) The Secrets of Drearcliffe Grange School (2015) The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School (2018) Angels of Music (2016) Something More Than Night (2021)Short story collections The Original Dr. Shade, and Other Stories (1994) Famous Monsters (1995) Back in the USSA (1997) (with Eugene Byrne) Seven Stars (2000) Where the Bodies are Buried (2000) Unforgivable Stories (2000) Dead Travel Fast (2005) Diogenes Club series The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006) The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2007) Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (2010) The Man From the Diogenes Club (2017) Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (Titan Books, 2011; ISBN 9780857682833)Comics Anno Dracula – 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem (Titan Comics, 2017, five issues) with artist Paul McCaffrey.As "Jack Yeovil" Warhammer setting Drachenfels (1989) Beasts in Velvet (1991) Genevieve Undead (1993, three novellas published as a single book) Silver Nails (2002, short stories) The Vampire Genevieve (2005, compilation of the above four books) Dark Future setting Krokodil Tears (1990) Demon Download (1990) Route 666 (1993) Comeback Tour (1991) Orgy of the Blood Parasites (1994) "The Big Fish" in Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)Awards The Horror Writers of America Bram Stoker Award for Best Non Fiction, shared 1989 (Horror: 100 Best Books, edited by Stephen Jones and Newman) The Horror Writers of America Bram Stoker Award for Best Non Fiction, shared 2005 (Horror: Another 100 Best Books, eds. Jones and Newman) The British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction (The Original Dr Shade) The Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award for Best Novel (Anno Dracula) The Fiction Award of the Lord Ruthven Assembly (Anno Dracula) International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel (Anno Dracula) International Horror Guild Award for Best Novella (Coppola's Dracula) Prix Ozone for Best Novel (Anno Dracula) The British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2000 (Where the Bodies Are Buried)Newman has been nominated for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award six times and for the World Fantasy Award seven times. Explanatory notes References Citations General and cited references Clute, John and John Grant (1997). The Enc.... Discover the Kim Newman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kim Newman books.

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    Christian Klavier

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    The Mars Room

    Rachel Kushner

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    Cthulhu 2000

    Jim Turner, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Poppy Z. Brite & F. Paul Wilson

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    Time Shards

    Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald

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    The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories

    Stephen Jones

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    Stephen Jones

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    Cat Marnell

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    Spymaster

    Martin Pearce

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    In the Footsteps of Dracula

    Stephen Jones

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    The City of Dr Moreau

    J.S. Barnes

    A visionary new horror novel in the style of Wells' creepiest and most enduring fictions a future history following the descendants of the Island of Dr Moreau.In H G Wells’ The Is...

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    Horrorology

    Clive Barker & Stephen Jones

    Curated by awardwinning editor Stephen Jones and illustrated by bestselling writer and artist Clive Barker, author of THE BOOKS OF BLOOD, welcome to HORROROLOGY: 'a dozen bonechill...

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    Angels of Music

    Kim Newman

    Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolvin...

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    The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror

    Stephen Jones & Michael Marshall Smith

    Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Co...

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    Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories

    Kim Newman

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    The Court Dancer

    Kyung-Sook Shin

    When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty’s magnificent culture, then at its zenith. But all fades away when he...

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    Shatter War

    Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald

    Time shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodge threats from across history to locate the source and repair the damage before it's too late.W...

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    Dreaming In French

    Vanessa McCausland

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    Countess Dracula

    Guy Adams

    You can do anything in Hollywood and be forgiven, anything except grow old...It’s the 1930s and cinema stands at the dawn of a new age, the silent era is all but dead, talkies are ...