Welcome to the official web site for Kim Newman: author, journalist, broadcaster, critic and bon viveur.

Here you can review Kim's extensive bibliography, or read his biography, or perhaps look at some photographs. You can even read some of Kim's stories. This site will keep you up to date on Kim's public appearances, as well as recording all news about his current projects, publication dates, and other random happenings.

Kim will be attending the World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK, from March 25-28, 2010.

February 2010

The cover of Kim's next collection, Mysteries of the Diogenes Club, has been released, and it's a stunner thanks to the fine art skills of Lee Moyer. The book is being released by MonkeyBrain Books, and is expected to be on sale by October 2010.

The BFI sampler, Kim Newman's Guide To The Flipside Of British Cinema, is now on sale at HMV for a mere £1.99. Perfect for those of you who love obscure film trivia.

December 2009

Next month the BFI is releasing a DVD sampler of forthcoming releases titled Kim Newman's Guide To The Flipside Of British Cinema, which will be on sale in HMV in the UK. The sampler includes:

• An all-new documentary, produced exclusively for the BFI, in which Kim explores such questions as how the director of Help! and Superman came to make one of the world's greatest, but little-known, black comedies, and lifts the lid on which previously unseen British film features Helen Mirren in her debut role.
• Carousella (1966, 25 mins): originally banned by the BBFC, this controversial dramatised documentary on the lives of a group of striptease artistes was directed by celebrated Hollywood filmmaker John Irvin (Hamburger Hill, Raw Deal)
• The Spy's Wife (1972, 27 mins): directed by Gerry O'Hara (All the Right Noises, The Bitch), this little-seen short film stars the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room, Prime Suspect) and Ann Lynn (Screamtime, Separation) in a modish tale of intrigue and extra-marital relations
• Tomorrow Night in London: a vibrant and fast-paced tourist board short made in the 1960s extolling the virtues, and fashions, of London's swinging scene
• Flipside trailer reel
• Illustrated booklet with essays and film credits

November 2009

Kim is currently doing some film reviews on the Unrated: Cinema of the Extreme web site.

Under Fire: A Century of War Movies, edited by Jay Slater, has been published and Kim is one of the contributing authors.

Daisy Banks interviewed Kim on The Browser web site, discussing Kim's favourite Five Books.

September 2009

Kim's new radio drama, 'Phish Phood', will air on BBC Radio 7 on Halloween (October 31). It's the debut episode of a new series of The Man in Black, with Mark Gatiss as the horror host (the Man in Black himself). The cast are John Rowe, Melissa Advani, Nyasha Hatendi and Liz Sutherland. It's directed by Gemma Jenkins.

July 2009

Kim's short story, "Moon Moon Moon", is now available to read on the Subterranean Press web site.

June 2009

On Friday 26 June director John Landis will be attending a special midnight screening of American Werewolf in London (1981) at the Curzon Soho cinema in London. He will be on hand for a signing from 10.00pm, followed by a Q&A at 11.30pm conducted by Kim Newman ahead of the screening of the film.

In April in Dublin Kim took part in a panel discussion at the Irish Film Institute about Dracula's cinematic legacy. A podcast of the event is now available for those who wish to listen to the conversation.

May 2009

Novelist Alex Bledsoe interviews Kim about Richard Jeperson, Kim's psychic investigator character and star of The Man from the Diogenes Club.

BBC7 has commissioned Kim to write another radio script - a half-hour scary story (provisional title 'Phish Phood') for a horror anthology show, The Man in Black, which will be broadcast later in the year.

At the Edinburgh Film Festival this year Kim will be in conversation with Roger Corman on 24 June at 18:00 at Cineworld 2, and with Joe Dante on 25 June at 18:00 at Cineworld 2. Tickets for both events go on sale on the 8th of May and cost £15.00/£6.40.

March 2009

Don't forget to listen in to Kim's new science-fiction radio play "Cry Babies", which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday the 9th of March from 2.15pm - 3pm. It's about a couple who have a newborn baby put into a cryogenic chamber until they are ready to become parents. The play will feature Alex Jennings as cryogenesis expert Dr Rossiter, and the cast also includes Natasha Little, Colin Morgan, and Rupert Degas. The Radio Times has selected "Cry Babies" as its "Choice of the Day", and the play will be available to listen via iPlayer for a week after the initial broadcast, even to international audiences.

The good publication news this month is that Kim has just contracted for a third Diogenes Club short story collection with MonkeyBrain Books, and a new, hugely-revised edition of his seminal work on horror cinema, Nightmare Movies, for Bloomsbury.

Check out the latest edition of the podcast StarShip Sofa: Number 68, which features the first in a four-part narration of Kim's story "The Serial Murders", as read by Gareth Stack.

January 2009

A five-part series of audio essays, "Loving The Raven", will be broadcast every evening from Monday 12 to Friday 16 January at 11.00-11.15pm on BBC Radio 3 to tie-in with the bi-centenary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809). Kim wrote the fifth essay (it airs on Friday), which examines Poe the man and his alter-ego, as explored through one of his lesser-known stories, "William Wilson".

A new anthology of nineteen stories inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow, has been released this month. It's called Poe, and Kim wrote "Illimitable Domain", the first story in the anthology. Publisher's Weekly referred to Kim' tale as "a gleefully subversive alternate history". The book can be purchased from either Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

Kim's new science-fiction radio play 'Cry-Babies' will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday the 9th of March at 2.15pm. It's about a couple who have a newborn baby put into a cryogenic chamber until they are ready to become parents. The play will feature Alex Jennings as cryogenesis expert Dr Rossiter, and the cast also includes Natasha Little, Colin Morgan, and Rupert Degas. You can view a photo of Kim with the cast at the recording of the play on the Gallery page.

December 2008

Kim is a contributing writer for the new encyclopedia: British Crime Writing, (Vol. 1) edited by Barry Forshaw.

Kim was interviewed recently for two online sources: by Neil Daniels over on Rock the Net!, and by Michael McCarty for Science Fiction Weekly

August 2008

Kim's novella, "Cold Snap", which appeared in Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, has been nominated for a 2008 World Fantasy Award.

June 2008

On Tuesday 1 July at 6.30pm, in the Gallery at Foyles Charing Cross, Kim and Alex Cox will be "in conversation" about Alex's autobiography, X Films: The True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Which means Kim will introduce the book and the author to the audience and then bombard Alex with all sorts of questions for about 40/45 minutes. A 15/20 minutes Q&A with the audience will follow.

Years ago Kim wrote the lyrics to a song called "Me and My Clone". You can hear a rendition of the tune on YouTube by Cat Smedly.

Kim recommends Riding the Dragon by William Hatchett as a fun read for those who like their WWI alternate histories with dragons.

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