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.

Kim will be attending Eastercon LX, The 60th British National Science Fiction Convention, in Bradford from 10-13th April 2009.

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.
July 2007: Watch 'Missing Girl', the 100-second film written and directed by Kim in 2001. This film was part of a challenge where three journalists were given a theme and a crew, and then told to create a film from scratch in under 24 hours. It stars Maribel Jimenez and Stephen Jones; With the publication of Comeback Tour, all of the Dark Future books, written under the Jack Yeovil pen name, have been reprinted by Black Library/Games Workshop.; Kim has a Profile up on Facebook.
February 2007: The Man from the Diogenes Club was selected for the 2006 Recommended Reading List by Locus Magazine.; Kim's short story, "Clubland Heroes", from the anthology Retro Pulp Tales, has been nominated for a Stoker Award in the "Long Fiction" section.
November 2006: Kim will appear in a number of the programmes in the BBC4 science fiction season, Science Fiction Britannia, starting November 13. You can catch him on The Martians and Us, Timeshift: Parallel Worlds, and some of the specials on British SF TV and film.; The anthology The Fair Folk, ed. Marvin Kaye (Science Fiction Book Club), won the 2005 World Fantasy Award in early November. Kim's "The Gypsies in the Wood" was one of the six short stories in the collection.
October, 2006: Krokodil Tears, the Dark Future novel by Kim's alter-ego Jack Yeovil, has been re-printed for the first time since 1990. It's now available from all good shops.; Kim will be participating in the Compass of Horror, an international Horror Film Festival in Bristol. On Sunday, 5 November 2006 he'll be discussing the British horror film tradition with Richard Stanley, director of the cult British horror flick, Dust Devil.; Kim has recorded a commentary track on a trio of films that have recently been released on DVD: Hands of the Ripper: Special Edition (commentary with Stephen Jones), Countess Dracula: Special Edition (commentary with Stephen Jones and Ingrid Pitt), and The Old Dark House (commentary with Stephen Jones).; An article Kim wrote on Irish Horror Cinema is now online in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.

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