Kim Newman

It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel tells the story of vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders. Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London. This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.

Anno Dracula

Presents the adventures of Professor Moriarty and his partner Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran as they solve crimes for profit.

The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

When the Naremores move into a new house in the Somerset countryside they find peace and harmony within the family, but as the house begins to turn on them they discover that it has the power to destroy them from the inside out.

An English Ghost Story

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.

The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

Paula Guran

Michael Marshall Smith

Laurell K. Hamilton

Charlaine Harris

Rachel Caine

Holly Black

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Kelly Armstrong

Presents a collection of twenty-four short stories that feature vampires as main characters.

The Recent Undead

Vampires

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."

Angels of Music

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...

Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha

The most valued member of the elite 1970s Diogenes Club, Britain's least-publicized law enforcement and intelligence agency, Richard Jeperson thrives in a private world of bad fashion sense, deadly enemies, and glamorous associates while tackling cases ranging from haunted trains to murders in utopian communities. Original.

The Man from the Diogenes Club

Transylvania 1976 and the vampire Kate Reed is on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's troubled production of "Dracula." Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire, the Count himself seems long gone. A relic of the past. But when Kate helps a young vampire outcast begin a new life in America, a fresh monster is born. He reinvents himself as Johnny Pop and makes his name selling a dangerously addictive drug that confers vampire powers on its users. As Johnny stalks the streets of Manhattan and Hollywood, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of 1980s America, it seems the past might not be dead after all...

Johnny Alucard

The classic volume of cult film criticism, now brought completely up-to-date 'Encyclopaedic, insightful, and entertaining - no bookshelf should be without Newman's frighteningly readable Nightmare Movies' Mark Kermode

Horror on Screen Since the 1960s

Nightmare Movies

Voted best Doctor Who book of 2001 by the readers of Doctor Who magazine

Time and Relative

As a six-year-old in the school playground you are asked to choose your favourite 'Man From Uncle' character: Napoleon Solo or Illya Kuriakin? If you choose the latter you are small, quiet and sensitive, prone to screaming fits and bullied. If the former, you join a gang, can look after yourself, become a successful businessman, get married. You make the choices, the story is your life. LIFE'S LOTTERY is a novel you can play like a game, read like a book or live like a life.

A Chhose-your-own-adventure Book

Life's Lottery

This first novel is a highly entertaining and imaginative journey between fact, fiction, and fantasy in the depths of a city where it is always two-thirty in the morning and always raining. "The conventions of film noir are lovingly exploited in this entertaining novel".--New York Times Book Review.

The Night Mayor

With his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale. 'If more mysteries were written like this, I'd read more mysteries.' - Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA's office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood's most horrific secrets. Together they will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren't just for the movies.

Something More Than Night

While Graf von Dracula commands the German army and Baron von Richthofen spreads terror in the skies during World War I, a resurrected Edgar Allan Poe is commissioned by the Germans to write a fabulous biography of the Red Baron.

The Bloody Red Baron

James Marriott

Two seasoned, top horror experts lead the way through more than a century of fear with authority, humor, and encyclopedic knowledge. Packed with images of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history, this fully updated volume--with reviews right up to 2017--traces the genre decade by decade, providing a witty and informative critique of more than 300 movies from all around the world, plus TV series and literature too. Kim Newman and James Marriott discuss both neglected gems and big-budget duds, from Frankenstein and Peeping Tom to It Follows, Get Out, The Babadook, and Mother , as well as material from countries as far afield as Japan and Brazil. These movies will continue to shock and delight viewers with their inventiveness and flair. Diehard and new horror fans will enjoy this superb, eye-opening look at their favorite genre.

365 Films to Scare You to Death

The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies

Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories

A CRITICAL GUIDE TO HORROR FILMS

Founded by Sherlock Holmes's cleverer brother, the Diogenes Club is the least-known of Britain's intelligence services, protecting the realm from occult menace and magical perfidy. Now its secret files are opened, revealing to the public the truth about fairies and fish-folk, national heroes and national horrors, diabolical masterminds and the Weather.

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club

In one volume, the BFI Companion to Horror offers a complete concordance to one of the most lasting genres of popular entertainment, focusing of course on the cinema but also taking in literature, television, radio, popular music, history and folklore.

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