The Official Kim Newman Web Site

Welcome to the official web site for Kim Newman: author, journalist, broadcaster, critic and bon viveur. Kim on the TV set of Dr. Terror Presents in 1996

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.

During this year's Edinburgh Film Festival 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.

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.

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.
April 2008: Kim will be conducting an extensive public interview with Roger Corman on Saturday 3rd May, from 8.15pm - 9.30pm, during the Cine-Excess II conference, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.; Cemetery Dance Publications has released The British Invasion anthology, which is edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore, and features an introduction by Stephen Volk and an Afterword by Kim, along with a slew of fine stories.
March 2008: Kim will be presenting a paper on Radiation and Mutation at the "It Came from the 1950s" conference in Trinity College, Dublin (May 15-16 2008).; You can read an article by Kim called "Forking", which looks at the process involved in writing his novel Life's Lottery. The piece was first published in Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.; You can watch Kim in the documentary Time Shift: A Study in Sherlock.; There is an interview with Kim on The Short Review website, where he discusses Secret Files of the Diogenes Club.; During the Cine-Excess II conference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, which will run from May 1-3, Kim will be chairing a panel discussion on the hottest talent in new Brit horror, called the 'The New Splatpack'.
January 2008: The Royal Mail in the UK released a beautiful booklet of stamps, which compares the life of the author Ian Fleming with the career of James Bond as played out in Fleming's novels. Who better than Kim Newman to write the text? The booklet consists of four stamp panes feature the James Bond stamps, two Union Jack and two White Ensign stamps which celebrate Fleming and Bond's wartime service in the Royal Navy Intelligence, and a mixed Machin pane.
November 2007: Kim's latest collection, Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, was launched at the World Fantasy Convention last weekend. The wonderful cover is designed by Lee Moyer, and it's published by MonkeyBrain Books. It's available to buy in all good bookstores, online or otherwise.; The Ghost Story Society has put up podcasts of panels from the World Fantasy Convention, two of which feature Kim: The Victoria Era as Setting, and Psychic Detectives in Literature.
September 2007: Kim is now writing a regular column called RT Obscura on the Rotten Tomatoes film web site.; Stephen Baxter has written a very comprehensive history of the evolution of the Games Workshop tie-in fiction line, which includes information on the Jack Yeovil novels, for Vector Magazine.
August 2007: The Man from the Diogenes Club has been nominated for a 2007 British Fantasy Award in the Best Collection category.; Kim's "The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train", from his collection The Man From the Diogenes Club, has been nominated for a 2007 World Fantasy Award in the "Best Novella" category.; You can see Kim giving expert opinion in the current BBC TV documentary series, British Film Forever. Expect to see a lot of him in the August 25th episode, Magic, Murder & Monsters: the story of Horror and Fantasy.

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