New Releases by Kim Newman

1895. Prince Dracula has ruled Great Britain for ten years, spreading vampirism through every level of society. On the eve of Dracula’s Jubilee, radical forces gather to oppose the tyrant. Kate Reed, vampire journalist and free-thinker, takes a seat on the revolutionary Council of Seven Days, though she learns that the anarchist group harbors a traitor in its midst. The Grey Men, Dracula’s dreaded secret police, have been ordered to quash all resistance to the rule of the arch-vampire. With intrigue on all sides, the scene is set for an explosive addition to the Anno Dracula series. An all-new comic series based on the best-selling Anno Dracula novels by Kim Newman! Comic series written by creator Kim Newman with art by Paul McCaffrey (The Third Doctor).

A brand new collection of chilling stories by master of horror Kim Newman, in which Jack the Ripper still stalks the streets, Frankenstein’s monster rises from the Arctic ice, and the terrifying legacy of Dr Jeyll and Mr Hyde haunts fog-shrouded London. This volume also includes a brand-new, exclusive Anno Dracula story, ‘Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899’, which sets the scene for the forthcoming novel Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju.

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 revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French Government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye. The toxic underbelly of Paris is exposed by Erik’s tenacious women operatives as they confront horror and corruption throughout the city. But it is one dreadful murder during the 1910 Great Flood of Paris that brings Irene Adler, Kate Reed and others together for a final, deadly confrontation.

« Une perspective aussi nouvelle que réjouissante sur l''univers de Sherlock Holmes. Un pur régal. » Hitfix Imaginez les jumeaux maléfiques de Sherlock Holmes et du docteur Watson, et vous obtiendrez le redoutable duo formé par le professeur James Moriarty, serpent rusé d''une intelligence remarquable aussi cruel qu''imprévisible, et le colonel Moran, violent, libertin et politiquement incorrect. Ensemble, ils règnent sur Londres en maîtres du crime, tenant dans leur poing police et hors-la-loi. Quelle que soit leur mission, du meurtre au cambriolage de haut vol, Moriarty et Moran accueillent un flot de visiteurs malfaisants : membres du Si-Fan assoiffés de sang, Vampires de Paris, et même une certaine Irène Adler...

A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy’s, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black hoods, Amy forms a secret, superpowered society called the Moth Club to rescue their friend. They soon discover that the Hooded Conspiracy runs through the School, and it''s up to the Moth Club to get to the heart of it.

Rome, 1959. Dracula est sur le point de se marier en grande pompe avec la princesse moldave Asa Vajda. Mais cet événement mondain exceptionnel, qui rassemblera tout le gotha vivant et mort-vivant de la Ville éternelle, n''est que la première étape d''un ambitieux projet élaboré par le comte. Orson Welles et un agent secret vampire du nom de Bond sont également de la partie, ainsi qu''un mystérieux assassin, le Bourreau Écarlate, qui trouble la dolce vita de la cité en semant les cadavres derrière lui... « Une verve étincelante et un récit saupoudré de références littéraires et cinématographiques. Un cocktail de sang, de sensations fortes et d''humour sournois. » The Times

Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn’t any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer. It is the near future and old-fashioned movies, or “flatties”, have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by professional Dreamers. When infamous criminal Truro Daine escapes imprisonment, he flees into the City, an artificial world of his own creation, where he rules as the all-powerful Night Mayor. Now, detective Dreamer Tom Tunney and Susan Bishopric, author of romance Dreams, must join forces to track him down. But how do you hunt the Night Mayor in a city populated by a dense crowd of strangely familiar characters, where it’s always two-thirty in the morning, shots never kill and the creator is omnipresent in every drop of falling rain…?

When Anne Nielson, an American journalist, travels to London to investigate the death of her sister Judi, she finds herself sucked into her nightmarish world of corruption and perversion, populated by dealers, pimps, sadomasochists and a vampire race that feasts on their victims'' dreams. At the centre of this sickly web lurks the Games Master. Something more and something less than a man, the closer Anne draws to his domain the more she endangers herself and everyone she knows, and soon she will learn that the Games Master is not just a name, and when he plays, he plays for keeps. An updated edition of the critically acclaimed novel, featuring the short story ''Orgy of the Blood Parasites'' and a brand-new afterword by Kim Newman.

A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most—threatening to destroy them from the inside out. A stand-alone novel from acclaimed author Kim Newman.

**The _shocking_ truth of Unland!** Sir Edward Grey digs deeper into the shocking truth about Unland even as the city drowns in the rising waters. With the help of a mysterious woman, Grey faces raging waters and the eel assassins that have haunted his every step! * Written by horror fiction legend Kim Newman (_Anno Dracula_)! * From the pages of _Hellboy_!

A brand new edition of Life''s Lottery - an exciting speculative fiction novel that invites the reader to assume the role of the protagonist! A role-playing novel that reveals how small decisions can have monumental consequences. If you choose the right possibilities you may live a long happy life, or be immensely rich, or powerful, or win the lottery. If you make other choices you may become a murderer, die young, make every mistake possible, or make no impression on life at all. The choice is yours.

On March 21st, 2013, I received a phone call from Holly Newstein telling me that her husband, Rick Hautala, had suffered a massive heart attack. That piece of information shocked me into a surreal sort of panic, so much so that at first I could not make the leap to the next thing she said...that he had died. It seemed impossible. Rick had been such a good friend, such a consistent and stable force in my life, that the idea of him being so suddenly removed from this world...I just couldn''t make sense of it. I have no doubt that readers will treasure this two-volume set. It is my hope that as you read, you will ruminate a little bit about the man for whom we all have come together within these pages. And I hope you''ll urge others to pick up their own copies of MISTER OCTOBER as well.

ABOUT THIS BOOK... In 1961, Derek Leech emerges fully formed from the polluted River Thames, destined to found a global media empire. In 1978, three ambitious young men strike a deal with Leech. They are offered wealth, glamour, and success, but a price must be paid. In 1994, Leech''s purpose moves to its conclusion, and as the men struggle, they realize to truth of the ultimate price.

In this amazing issue: Three boys are pursued by a shapeless terror in The Drain by Stephen Gallagher, author of Down River and Rain. Acclaimed writer Charles L. Grant takes motherly love to the limits in Alice Smiling. And Kim Newman reveals an obsessive book collector''s dark secret in The Man who collected Barker. Plus news and views from the world of fantasy and horror.

DRACULA COMES TO NEW YORK: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with theVampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century - this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series. Newman’s dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker’s Dr. John Seward and enslaved Victorian England? Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments, Dracula seems long gone. A relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard descends upon America, stalking the streets of New York and Hollywood, haunting the lives of the rich and famous, from Sid and Nancy to Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of 1980s America, it seems the past might not be dead after all.

The residents of a sleepy English village are dreaming—and their nightmares are turning into realities—in this “brilliantly nasty” horror novel from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Anno Dracula (Sunday Telegraph) Paul, a young academic composing a thesis about the end of the world, and his girlfriend have come to the tiny English village of Alder for the summer. Their idea of a rural retreat gradually sours as the laws of nature begin to break down around them . . . It would appear that the annual rock music festival held by the bizarre Agapemone sect is the only thing shattering the peace of Alder. But as the temperature rises, it becomes clear that the tiny village may not be the Heaven on Earth that their leader, Reverend Anthony Jago, is trying to create. Residents’ nightmares are coming true—unleashing creatures from local legend, science fiction, and the dark side of the human mind upon the town.

DRACULA COMES TO NEW YORK: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with the Vampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century - this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series.

Packed with images of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history, this fully updated volume -- with reviews right up to 2013 -- traces the genre decade by decade, providing a witty and informative critique of more than 300 movies from all around the world, and TV series, too.

Le Comte Dracula n''est pas mort à la fin du roman de Bram Stroker. Il a épousé la Reine Victoria, et règne sur la Grande-Bretagne. Le vampirisme se répand dans toutes les strates de la population, et les humains normaux sont mal vus. Dans cette version de Londres du XIXe siècle, des prostituées vampires se font assassiner par un mystérieux homme aux scalpels d''argent. Au coeur de l''enquête se croisent le Dr Jekyll, Moriarty, Fu Manchu, le club Diogène...

Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha. Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...

Praise for Anno Dracula: "Kim Newman''s Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it''s still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman "Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman''s prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out “Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them… Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.” - New York Times “Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - Seattle Times “Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - San Francisco Chronicle ''A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read'' - Washington Post Book World "The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. ''Ultimate'' seems an apt description... Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory." - Locus "A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed." - The Independent "Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end." - Ain''t It Cool "Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre''s ongoing revolution." - Paul McAuley "Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn''t be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It''s a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count." - Christopher Fowler "The most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction!" - RexRobotReviews -- WAR IS HELL... It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies ofGermany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europeis also a war between the living and the undead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protegé Edwin Winthrop,and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron... In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Geneviève Dieudonné,newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club. A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Barontakes the story into the 20th century.

In a struggle with the local police, the witchfinder is taken down, but before they can drown him in the rising waters, a strange fish woman takes him in and reveals the mystery of Unland. * Written by horror fiction legend Kim Newman (_Anno Dracula_)! * From the pages of _Hellboy_! * #GoToUnland

Local officials present a fa̤ade of normalcy, but the Witchfinder knows there''s something wrong with the denizens of Unland, and he''s starting to uncover what that has to do with the dying founder of the town and the elixir he invented that put the town on the map . . . * Created by Mike Mignola! * From the pages of _Hellboy_!

After a dangerous clash with giant eel monsters, Sir Edward Grey determines that all signs of the secrets of Hallam point to Poole''s Elixir factory. * Featuring art by Tyler Crook (_Bad Blood_, _B.P.R.D._)! * Created by Mike Mignola!

Edward Grey is sent to Hallam to investigate a mysterious death. Once there, he hears rumors about the mysterious Unland, the wetlands around the town, and the creatures that inhabit it. Grey''s skepticism vanishes when he encounters the monsters of Unland, and he realizes that Hallam is a place of secrets. * Mike Mignola''s _Witchfinder_! * Featuring art by Eisner winner Tyler Crook (_Bad Blood_, _B.P.R.D._)! * From the pages of _Hellboy_!

Das große Epos über die legendären Blutsauger Vergesst, was immer ihr über Dracula und seine düstere Sippschaft zu wissen glaubt - dies ist die wahre Geschichte! Eine Geschichte, die damit beginnt, dass der Vampirjäger Abraham Van Helsing versagt: Es gelingt ihm nicht, Graf Dracula in Transsylvanien zu töten. Was verheerende Folgen hat: Der Fürst der Vampire wird zum Prinzgemahl Queen Victorias und versetzt mit seinen blutsaugenden Gesellen das London der Jahrhundertwende in Angst und Schrecken. Und das ist, wie gesagt, erst der Beginn der Geschichte ... Mit "Die Vampire" legt der britische Starautor Kim Newman ein Buch vor, das seinesgleichen sucht: Die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Sicht der berühmtesten Horrorgeschöpfe aller Zeiten.