The Official Kim Newman Web Site: Fiction

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'This man hates,' Lestrade continued, 'hates with a passion. The murders must be committed in a frenzy, yet there's a coolness to them. He kills out on the street in broad darkness. He doesn't just butcher, he dissects. And vampires aren't easy to kill. Our man is not a simple lunatic. He has a reason.'

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Anno Dracula

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"A tall blonde about five years younger than Richard, Agent Gauge had a figure Hugh Hefner would get excited about and a don't-mess-with-me stance which gave warning to the most octopus-handed Playboy subscriber. She had big grey-blue eyes and straight, mid-length hair with a pronounced widow's peak. Her only flaw was a tiny question mark scar under her right eye-easy to cover with make-up, but she chose not to. She modelled a powder-blue trouser suit over a fawn blouse. Her wide belt, worn high, matched the blouse and was fastened with a large circular buckle. Her jacket, tailored to conceal a shoulder-holster, hung oddly because she wasn't wearing a gun. That made her an American."

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'Moon Moon Moon'

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Another snowman loomed up in front of them. In a postman's cap, with a mail-bag slung over its shoulder. It was larger and looser thing than the others, more hastily-made, with no face coals or carrot. They barrelled into the shape, which came apart, and sprawled in a tangle on the cold, cold ground - Richard felt the bite of black ice through his gauntlets as the heel of his hand jammed against grit. Under him was a dead but loose-limbed postman, grey-blue in the face, crackly frost in his hair. He had been inside the snowman.

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'Cold Snap'

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When his eyes got used ot the gloom, Fred found he was being held close by a tiny woman in a Cleopatra outfit. She had Egyptian eye makeup and a sprinkling of glitter on her bare shoulders. A rearing tin cobra stuck to the front of her stiff black wig prodded his chin."

"Steady on, Luv," he said.

"You've made a conquest, Fred," commented Richard slyly.

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'Soho Golem'

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"De Ville was a black silhouette, fringed with bitter crimson. He seemd to look directly at the white hot iron, unaffected by the harsh glow that ruined others' eyes. All Massingham knew about the Count that he was a foreign gentleman, with a great interest in railways."

from
Dead Travel Fast

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"My friend, you have a choice. Of course, you have a choice. You can go this way or that. You can call heads or tails. you can have coffee or tea.

It's that simple."

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Life's Lottery

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"We've been in 1963 for five months, I think. It seems like five months. But anywhen we stay, it always seems like five months. You might not think it possible to have spent five months in 1963 when it's only March, but that'd only go to show how hidebound you are by the chronological system of ordering time.

'Continuity, bah!' Grandfather said yesterday or the day after. 'Doesn't exist, child. Except in the minds of the cretinously literal, like the singlehearts who clutter up this planet. Trying to sort it all out will only tie you up in useless knots forever.' "

from
Time and Relative

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"The vampire in the white suit hooked her attention too.

For a moment, she was sure it was him, come back yet again, young and lethal, intent on murderous revenge.

She breathed the name, 'Dracula.'

from
"Andy Warhol's Dracula"

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"You have conquered and I yield. yet, henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the World, to Heaven, and to Hope! In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered myself."

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"Just like Eddy"

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"She had failed to persuade him to accept the Dark Kiss. But he let her know that she had not failed with him."

His blood sang inside her.

"I love you forever," he whispered, too soft for the others to hear.

from
Dracula Cha Cha Cha

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"Pai-net'em found Pharaoh in his morning room, hunched on his day-bed, face as swollen and distorted as the lowest slave's. The great were not spared; indeed, Pharaoh seemed to suffer more than his subjects, for he had far more to lose. If all who lived under him were oblierated, his name would pass from memory."

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"Seven Stars"

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"Peter Paul Parick, a convicted arsonist, set off a fire bomb in a private club where old horror films were shown. Five people died in reel two of the 1943 Henry Aldrich Haunts a House. Patrick claimed it was time "to rid the world of Rob Hackwill and the perverts who are his disciples". Fifty-seven per cent of Comet readers agreed with him."

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"Where the Bodies are Buried 3"

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"My friend, you have a choice. Of course, you have a choice. You can go this way or that. You can call heads or tails. you can have coffee or tea.

It's that simple."

from
Life's Lottery

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"So, this ash-faced creature was coven-master of New York. Johnny had seen Andy Warhol before, here and at the Mudd Club, and knew who he was, the man who painted soup cans and made the dirty movies. He hadn't known Warhol was a vampire, but now it was pointed out, it seemed obvious. What else could such a person be?"

from
"Andy Warhol's Dracula"

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"They say the waiters here are très delicious," Geneviève said, peering into the empty, shadowed bar.

"They are," Kate agreed.

Geneviève looked, almost admiring, at her.

"You are a dark horse."

from
Judgement of Tears

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"I don't know how much you know about America, Mr. Lowe, but a Labor Day weekend is some big deal. Every town has its parades, and speeches and hoe-downs. It was an even bigger deal under Chairman Capone. Everyone I knew bought it outright. Except Mom, of course. She was a real old dissenter. She was taking risks. She was First Aid officer at the tractor plant, and was too good at it to be got rid of."

from
Back in the USSA

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"He is a monster. Dracula"

Beauregard nodded. "We have met."

"You British," she continued, "you were right to throw him out."

from
The Bloody Red Baron

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I pushed the door and found myself in the temple's waiting room. It was what I'd expected: subdued lighting, old but bad paintings, a few semi-pornographic statuettes, a strong smell of last night's incense to cover the fish stink. It had as much religious atmosphere as a two-dollar bordello.

"Yoo-hoo," I said, "Dagon calling..."

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"The Big Fish"

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Sally knew from experience and The Rockford Files that nothing was as simple as the commission she had accepted. She was being followed.

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"Mother Hen"

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"He opened his eyes; his first image was green murk, shadows filtering down. Before the murk, there was nothing. He was new-formed. Yet his mind was full: he had language, knowledge, purpose. He had a name: Leech."

from
The Quorum

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" 'There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent of some damned regimental water-bearer.'

'In India, I knew a water-bearer who was a better man than most.'"

from
Anno Dracula

Contributors:

Steve Antczak, Barrington Bayley, Stephen Baxter, Scott Bradfield, Jonathan Carroll, Ray Davis, Greg Egan, Christopher Fowler, Colin Greenland, Peter F. Hamilton, Gwyneth Jones, Cliff burns, Graham Joyce, Marc Laidlaw, Jonathan Lethem & Lukas Jaeger, Ian R MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Alastair Reynolds, Nicholas Royle, Lewis Shiner, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Timlin, Lisa Tuttle, Ian Watson, Don Webb, Andrew Weiner, and F. Paul Wilson.

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"He straightened and walked towards the centre, the last of the flames nipping at his ankles, scorching the hair off his shins. He did not know where he was going."

...but when he got there, Raphael was waiting.

from
Jago

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"He was satisfied, glutted, complete. Beneath his helmet, the tangle of his hair, grey-streaked at dawn, was a match now for the purest sable. His lieutenants no longer remarked upon the changes in him. By now, they were used to his cycles and simply put his occasional youthful appearance down to sorcery."

from
Bad Dreams

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"She put a hand in her pocket and felt the grip of the weapon. Juliet had given her a few pointers, but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building. Vanessa could shoot the eye out of a gnat at fifty paces. Susan hoped the skill would come back to her if it came to guns."

from
The Night Mayor

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Anno Dracula

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Mysteries of the Diogenes Club

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Secret Files of the Diogenes Club

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The Man from the Diogenes Club

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Dead Travel Fast

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Life's Lottery

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Time and Relative

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Binary 2

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Unforgivable Stories

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Dracula Cha Cha Cha

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Seven Stars

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Where the Bodies are Buried

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Life's Lottery

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Andy Warhol's Dracula

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Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959

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Back in the USSA

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The Bloody Red Baron

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Famous Monsters

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The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories

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The Quorum

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Anno Dracula

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In Dreams

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Jago

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Bad Dreams

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The Night Mayor

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