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Kim Newman
From the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula, the perfect gift for those who love the dark fantastic imaginations of Neil Gaiman and T. Kingfisher, this is a nightmarish tale of…
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Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies presents a stellar selection of imagery, charting the story of the…
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Anne Nielson, an American journalist, comes to London to investigate the strange death of her sister. Soon, she becomes sucked into a netherworld of corruption and perversion and is hurtled…
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There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong…
In 1899 Genevieve Dieudonne travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled…
Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the…
It is 1918 and Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. As ever the Diogenes Club is at the heart of British Intelligence and Charles Beauregard and…
Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Prof. James Moriarty - wily, snake-like, fiercely intelligent, unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian ‘Basher’…
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Written by award-winning novelist and movie critic Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series. Original.
Hardcover version published by Titan in 2013.
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula.
Considered alongside / Am Legend and Interview with the Vampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century, this novel is part of the influential Anno Dracula…
It would appear that the annual music festival held by the bizarrre Agapemone sect is the only thing shattering the peace in the tiny village of Alder, but as the…
A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the Somerset countryside. At first their new home, seems to embrace them, creating a rare…
In 1899 Genevieve Dieudonne is working as a doctor on a ship of vampire refugees from Dracula’s Britain, as Christina Light, a vampire who can literally turn into light, persuades…
Truro Daine, a dangerous criminal who has been confined to imprisonment, escapes his incarceration by inventing a computer-generated dream world, which he rules as the Night Mayor.
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…
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Amy Thomsett is sent to Drearcliff Grange School in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular 1920s boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal…
The stunning new novel starring the superpowered Amy Thomsett from the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula
The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman. Compulsory reading… glorious Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula
Anno Dracula author Kim Newman reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff with his signature wit in this gripping and horrifying tale of late 1930s Hollywood
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…
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…
Kim Newman’s fascinating study focuses on Roy Ward Baker’s 1967 film, written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale for Hammer Films, but also looks at the origins of the Quatermass franchise…
CAN’T ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE? Send for the man from the Diogenes Club! Newman’s ten mischievous tales, with cameos from the much-loved characters of the Anno Dracula universe, will entertain fans…
Rome 1959 and Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire…
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. His polluted bloodline spreads through London as its citizens…
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Maura McHugh
The debut short story collection from accomplished Irish author Maura McHugh. It includes twenty tales - four of them original to the volume - which represent the best strange visions…
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Simon Raven
Richard Fountain, a promising young Cambridge scholar, went to the island of Crete to study ancient rites and pagan rituals before suddenly and inexplicably breaking off all contact with the…
"Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein,, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West--they're all here in this…
From Kim Newman comes this new story set in his unique world of vampires and Dracula, Anno Dracula. On the verge of Dracula’s 10th anniversary of rule, forces sworn to…
Paul Kane
STORIES INFLUENCED BY THE MASTERS OF DARK LITERATURE What was the real story behind Jekyll and Hyde? How do you cheat the most notorious curse of all time? Why are…
Mike Mignola,Kim Newman
Sir Edward Grey is sent to Hallum to investigate the death of a crown-appointed official, but once he is there he hears rumours of the mysterious Unland, the wetlands around…
Nathaniel Thompson
For centuries, mankind has been chilled by tales of vampires. A fixture of literature, art, and folk tales, the vampire was a natural early choice for a movie monster at…
Case
More than forty-five years after his first collection was published, here is an original volume of David Case’s transformative tales that showcases the author’s remarkable psycho-sexual fiction combined with the…
More than forty-five years after his first collection was published, here is an original volume of David Case’s macabre Gothic tales that showcases the author’s remarkable psycho-sexual fiction combined with…
With stories by Stephen King, D.H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories as well as the most comprehensive…
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Marvin Kaye,Kim Newman
The 22nd issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales – including a brand new Nero Wolfe story! Included are 7 stories, a poem, all the…
The third volume of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features A Volume in Vermillion, by Kim Newman, plus fiction by Bruce I. Kilstein ( Watson’s Wound ), Darrell Schweitzer ( The…
