The Official Kim Newman Web Site: Gallery

"The vampire spy stood on the balcony and lit a cigarette with a Ronson lighter, flame reddening his forceful face. He exhaled smoke and looked down on Beauregard. His quizzical smile exposed a prominent fang.

"The name's Bond," he said, with a slight Scots roll. "Hamish Bond"

"Good morning, Commander Bond," Beauregard said. "Welcome to the Eternal City."

The new-born took a cursory look across Parco di Traiano, taking in the ruin of Nero's Golden House (one of Rome's many monuments to megalomania) and the jagged edge of the Flavian Amphitheater, the Colosseum. Beauregard noticed with sadness that Bond was not taken with the scenery. Duty ought not blind one to the view. Indeed, it was the duty of those in their shared profession to pay attention.

Though travelling under his naval rank, Bond was out of uniform, dressed as if for baccarat at Monte. His white Savile Row dinner jacket was perfectly cut, loose enough to suggest to the observant the possibility of a shoulder holster. Beauregard knew exactly what this man was, even what was in the holster. A Walther PPK 7.65mm, worn in a Berns-Martin Triple-Draw, clip of eight lead-jacketed silver bullets. Nasty thing.

The breeze played with a stray comma of Bond's black hair. Smoke tore from his cigarette, a handmade Balkan-Turkish blend with three gold bands. Too distinctive for a fellow in his line, too memorable. Those custom gaspers suggested an attitude. Here was a vampire who knew how to shrug in a dinner jacket without rucking the collar, wore shirts of sea island cotton and could draw a pistol as easily as he pulled his Ronson from an inside picket. One would think he wanted to make an impression, to strike a pose for the gunsight.

Charles Beauregard hoped he had never been like this."

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Dracula Cha Cha Cha

	January 2009. Kim lies down before the cast of the BBC production of his Radio Play "Cry Babies": (Back - Left to right) Neil Gardner (director), Alex Jennings, Emma Darwall-Smith, Sarah Douglas, Natasha Little, (front) Kirsty Stuart, Sam Alexander, and Sia Berkeley.
	Stephen Jones and Kim admire the view from the San Francisco wharf in May 2006.
	Kim sitting in the pub of the Ashling Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, where he was attending P-Con in October 2003.
	Here's Kim, Stephen James Walker (publisher), David J Howe (publisher) and Barry Forshaw (freelance writer and Kim's mate) at the recent launch of Kim's Doctor Who novella, Time and Relative. It's published by Telos Publishing. The picture was taken on on November 23rd, 2001 at The Stamp Centre in London.
	Looking dapper in shades, this picture was taken of Kim on a balcony of an apartment in Dublin, in momentary sunshine. That was just good luck, as that day in April 2001, saw hailstones and rain as well as breaks of sunny weather. It was decided to take the picture during the couple of nanoseconds of sun so the web site would have a recent picture of Kim. There was no fussing, and this was the only picture taken - Kim proved himself to be an easy-going photographic subject.
	Kim Newman, and regular writing collaborator, Eugene Byrne, getting in a spot of Nazi-hunting on the Island of Jersey in early 1999. The local museum provided some useful tips. The poster behind them is one looking for British recruits for the German Legion of St George c.1943. Thanks to Eugene for sending the photo my way.
	Here we see Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne in an understated pose from when they were publicising the launch of their 1997 book Back in the USSR. They are currently working on a series of novels set in an alternate world where the Germans won World War II called The Matter of Britain. Euguene has put together a web site detailing their collaborative work entitled The Newman and Byrne Messed-up History Experience - well worth a visit.
	In this picture we see author Anne Billson, Nik Fiend (of Alien Sex Fiend), Christopher Lee (an actor of some distinction), and Kim Newman.
	A lovely picture of a gang of friends taking a riverboat trip in New Orleans. Back row: Dennis Etchison, Kim Newman, Mike Smith, Paula Grainger, Steve Jones, Mandy Slater, Jane Johnson, Kris Etchison, Jo Fletcher, Richard front row: Nick Royle, Val Edwards, Suzanne Barbieri, Les Edwards.

The cast and crew of Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock, at the Arts Centre, 1986. Back row: Kim Newman, Sarah Trethewey, Alex Dunn, Kevin Freeman, Mike Bragg, Brian Smedley (the Fat Bopper), Eugene Byrne (Alan Greed). Front row Anne Fraser (Little Bimbo), Mick Buckland, Dickie Pyne, Matthew Bartlett (Johnny Annoyed), Sam Terry (Kathy Kardiff), and Roger O'Hare.