Kim Newman, Author . MonkeyBrain $15.95 (389p) ISBN 978-1-932265-17-0
British author Newman channels the glam '70s in this spirited collection of eight stories that celebrate Richard Jeperson, an agent of the titular club—the "least-known branch of the United Kingdom's intelligence and investigative...
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $17.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-88184-642-3
This quirky first novel by the author of Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film Since 1968 bludgeons the reader with a slew of references to crime movies, character actors and film cliches. In futuristic England, Dreamer Susan...
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $18.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-88184-781-9
This sporadically gruesome and nearly always frightening horror tale is not for the squeamish or faint of heart, but readers enthralled by things that go bump in the night are in for a treat. When journalist Anne Nielson goes to London to...
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22 (536p) ISBN 978-0-88184-868-7
Though this latest horror novel from the author of The Night Mayor draws on conventional elements of the genre, it is a distinguished literary effort rooted in the emotional interiors of three-dimensional characters. Anthony Jago, a former priest...
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (359p) ISBN 978-0-88184-967-7
What if Count Dracula married Queen Victoria? On this intriguing, but inescapably silly, conceit, Newman ( Jago ) bases his exercise in historical horror fiction, previously published in the U.K. In England, circa 1888, ``turning'' vampire is all...
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (311p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0132-2
Fans of ``Deal with the Devil'' stories ought to be delighted with this fifth novel from British horror writer Newman (Anno-Dracula), which brings a new twist or two to the genre. Be advised, though, that supernatural elements play second fiddle to...
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Kim Newman, Author Avon Books $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-72345-4
Queen Victoria consorts with Count Dracula in this ingenious historical romp peopled by historic characters. (Oct.)
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0252-7
In this stunning follow-up to his inventive alternate-world fantasy, Anno Dracula (1992), Newman ponders the course that history might have taken had Count Dracula fought for the Kaiser in WWI. It's some 30 years since the vampire eluded the fate...
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Kim Newman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0558-0
Newman's latest monster mash is the third in a series of fiendishly clever novels (after Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron) set in a world where Dracula lives and the glitterati of history, fiction and film are all his vampire progeny. It's 1959,
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Kim Newman. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-85768-283-3
Stoker Award–winner Newman (Anno Dracula) pulls out all the stops in this delightfully roguish alternate take on the Sherlock Holmes canon, with Moriarty's number two, Col. Sebastian Moran, in the Watson role. Clever send-ups of canonical highlights
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Kim Newman. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $24.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-85768-086-0
The transformation in 1944 of a boy into a vampire launches the zany latest entry in Newman’s Anno Dracula series of vampire stories, set in an alternate world where Dracula ruled England before dying in 1959. The boy, who goes first by John Popp...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $14.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-60701-254-2
Guran (Zombies: The Recent Dead) compiles 25 21st-century vampire stories, with an all-star author lineup. Several stories focus on vampirism as a cure for disease, as in Mary A. Turzillo's "When Gretchen Was Human," in which a mother sacrifices her
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Kim Newman. Titan, $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-78909-771-9
Newman (Anno Dracula) crafts a genre-bending mystery that twines meticulously researched history with the unabashedly campy tropes of early sci-fi and horror. In the 1930s, Hollywood mogul Ward Home Jr. bursts from his Gothic home on Sunset...
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Edited by James Aquilone. Black Spot, $31.99 (444p) ISBN 978-1-64548-122-5
The 30 gory but playful stories in this bursting anthology gleefully riff on the famous monsters of stage and screen. Indeed, much of the reader’s enjoyment will come from noticing that the hideously scarred young protagonist of JG Faherty’s “Beautif
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