Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil. An expert on horror and sci-fi cinema (his books of film criticism include Nightmare Movies and Millennium Movies), Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. He is complexly and irreverently referential; the Dracula sequence—Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha—not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith. In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. His pseudonymous novels, as Jack Yeovil, play elegant games with genre cliche—perhaps the best of these is the sword-and-sorcery novel Drachenfels which takes the prescribed formulae of the games company to whose bible it was written and make them over entirely into a Kim Newman novel. Life's Lottery, his most mainstream novel, consists of multiple choice fragments which enable readers to choose the hero's fate and take him into horror, crime and sf storylines or into mundane reality.
Series
Books
Jago
1991
The Man from the Diogenes Club
2017
A Christmas Ghost Story
2024
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories
2017
Video Dungeon
2016
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror
2021
The Quorum
1994
The Night Mayor
1989
The Vampire Genevieve
2005
Quatermass and the Pit
2014
Andy Warhol's Dracula
1999
Anno Dracula
1992
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
2018
Professor Moriarty
The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
2011
Seven Stars
2000
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
2015
Prisoners of the Action
2012
Life's Lottery
1999
Famous Monsters
1995
Bad Dreams
1991
The Dead That Walk
Flesh-Eating Stories
2009
An English Ghost Story
2014
Classic Monsters Unleashed
2022
Horror!
The Definitive Companion to the Most Terrifying Movies Ever Made
1888
Doctor Who
Time and Relative
2001
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club
2010
Anno Dracula
The Bloody Red Baron
1995
The Bfi Companion to Horror
1997
Where the Bodies Are Buried Limited Edition S
2000
Nightmare Movies
Wide Screen Horror Since 1968
1984
Gaslight Grimoire
Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes
2008
Horrorology
2015
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
2007
Science Fiction/Horror
A Sight and Sound Reader
2002
The Fair Folk
2008
Cat People
1999
Anno Dracula
One Thousand Monsters
2017
Apocalypse Movies
End of the World Cinema
2000
Doctor Who
A Cultural Reading
2005
Nightmare Movies
Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
2011
Johnny Alucard
2013
Something More Than Night
2021
The Man from the Diogenes Club
2006
Anno Dracula 1999
Daikaiju
2019
Angels of Music
2016
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
1998
Unforgivable Stories
2000
