The Official Kim Newman Web Site

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.
June, 2006: This month sees the release of Kim's latest collection, The Man from the Diogenes Club, which consists of stories featuring the psychic detective Richard Jeperson. The book is reviewed on Emerald City.; You can listen to an an hour-long podcast interview with Kim during the World Horror Convention in May 2006.; If you like Kim's writing, then you might enjoy Dragon Rising by William Hatchett. Kim describes it as "..a ripping yard-type World War One thriller with occult elements," so it's worth checking out.; In the International Horror Guild Awards Kim has been nominated in the 'Long Fiction' category for 'The Serial Murders', and Horror: Another 100 Best Books (co-edited with Stephen Jones) scored a nomination in the 'Non-Fiction' category.; Kim and his mate Paul McAuley are up for an alternative history Sidewise Award for their 2005 Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony.; Kim and Stephen Jones won the 2005 Stoker Award in the Nonfiction category for their collection Horror: Another 100 Best Books.
April, 2006: Kim and Stephen Jones have been nominated for a Stoker Award in the Nonfiction category for their collection Horror: Another 100 Best Books.
March, 2006: Both Paul McAuley and Kim have been nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category for their 2005 Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony (the script is online, and you can download it as a WMV file). It was directed by Mike & Debby Moir.; Check out The Kim Newman Archive, which is an excellent collection of Kim's reviews and articles.; The reprint of Route 666, the Dark Future novel by Kim's alter-ego Jack Yeovil, is now available in shops.
December, 2005: Kim's latest non-fiction book is part of the new BFI TV Classics series. It's a comprehensive study of Doctor Who, which examines the outstanding stories as well as prominent themes, recurrent characters, and monsters.; Kim will appear in the documentary, A Study in Sherlock : Time Shift--which he also co-scripted--on Christmas Eve on BBC 4 at 9.15 pm. (There will be a repeat showing at 1am on December 27th.).; The introduction to the new omnibus, The Vampire Genevieve, is now online. It's an excellent overview of Kim's influences for Genevieve and her adventures, and the story evolution.
October, 2005: The reprint of Demon Download, the Dark Future novel by Kim's alter-ego Jack Yeovil, is now available to buy.; The first part of a new three-part Richard Jeperson story, entitled The Serial Murders, is now online at SciFi.com.; Kim will be on the jury at the Leeds International Film Festival in November.; Horror: Another 100 Best Books, a follow-up to the 1988 Horror: 100 Best Books, which Kim co-edited with Stephen Jones, has been published by Carroll & Graf.; This web site was voted "Site of the Month" by the The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen.
August, 2005: Before the release of the omnibus edition of Jack Yeovil's Genevieve's novels, The Vampire Genevieve, by The Black Library, its sister imprint, Black Flame, will begin re-printing all of Yeovil's Dark Future novels, starting with Demon Download on the 5th September.; The first American collection of Kim's short stories has been released: Dead Travel Fast, published by Dinoship.; There's an interview on the Intempol web site with Kim by Octavio Aragao.; Next year MonkeyBrain Books will collect together most of Kim's stories that feature the psychic detective, Richard Jeperson. It will be called The Man From the Diogenes Club.; The 2005 Hugo Award Ceremony Script, which was co-written, and co-presented by Kim and Paul McAuley, is now online.
February, 2005: Stephen Jones and Kim Newman are editing a follow-up to their 1988 Horror: 100 Best Books, to be called Horror: Another 100 Best Books, with a projected publication date of Halloween 2005. 100 new contributors will write about 100 books not covered in the earlier volume.; The BFI is launching a series of TV Classics booklets on the model of its established Film Classics line. Among the first four titles will be Kim Newman's Doctor Who.; Kim has been working on a series of stories about Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Moriarty. 'A Shambles in Belgravia' is already posted on the BBCi Cult Site. 'A Volume in Vermilion', the first in the series will be published in the new Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, edited by Marvin Kaye, with an expanded reprint of 'Shambles' to follow.; On 31st October 2005, The Black Library will release The Vampire Genevieve, an omnibus of all four "Jack Yeovil" Warhammer titles. It will contain Drachenfels, Genevieve Undead, Beasts in Velvet and the more recent Silver Nails, plus a new introduction by Kim Newman (Jack Yeovil's alter ego) that will attempt to explain the whole uncanny episode.
January, 2005: You can now read 'A Shambles in Belgravia', a Sherlock Holmes-related story by Kim, on the BBC Cult site. You can wait to hear the live broadcast of the story on BBC7 (digital radio) on 20th Jan at 1.30 and 8.30pm, or you can listen to it now.
November, 2004: An interview with Kim by Patrick Hudson is available to read on The Zone.; Kim and Stephen Jones provide the audio commentary on the collectors editions of Sanctuary Visual Entertainment's Amityville II and Amityville 3-D.
October, 2004: A new story by Kim, called Soho Golem, is available to read on SciFiction.com.; Kim is all over the media at the moment. Watch out for his opinions about the "Top Ten Robots", "Top Ten Sci Fi Moments", "Top Ten Aliens" on Sky TV, appearences on Channel 5 shows about Hellboy, Russ Meyer, 100 Great War Films, and a forthcoming World Service radio series about the supernatural.; If you buy the British Fantasy Society's Calendar 2005, which focuses on Gawain and the Green Knight, you can read the material Kim has contributed.
April, 2004: Kim appeared in an episode of the reality TV show from Channel 4, called the Regency House, in March 2004.; A new short story called 'Mildew Manor', or The Italian Smile", described as a "rollicking Gothic masque, complete with Dark Figure," is available to read on the BBC web site. If you enjoy that, then listen to a full cast production of 'Mildew Manor'. It's performed by the stars of Big Finish: Nick Briggs, Ian Brooker, Helen Goldwyn and Patricia Levington. Kim Newman voices the narrator, and the Director, John Ainsworth, plays the part of the Dark Figure.; The Mammoth Book of Vampires, Robinson, Carroll & Graf's bestselling short story collection, is being re-issued in the USA and the UK. It features Kim's story, 'Red Reign', upon which his award-winning novel, Anno Dracula, is based. A new story, 'Gypsies of the Wood', will appear in Marvin Kaye's forthcoming collection of novellas about fairies called The Fair Folk.
November, 2003: Kim will appear in one episode of the Regency House, the latest historial reality TV show from Channel 4 (UK terrestrial TV). The programme is due to air in January 2004.; The keen-eyed TV watchers among you should have spotted Kim holding forth on the 100 Greatest Scary Moments, a Channel 4 programme, that aired over the Halloween weekend.
August, 2003: Subterranean Press is releasing Night Visions 11, edited by Bill Sheehan, in the coming months. It contains novellas by Tim Lebbon, Lucius Shepard, and Kim (a story called "Swellhead"), and will have a limited edition release as well as a normal hardcover.; Kim's first American collection is due out by the end of the year from US publisher, Dinoship. It's called Dead Travel Fast. A German translation of Kim's short story collection, Seven Stars, is forthcoming shortly.; Movie buffs in Europe might be interested in picking up the latest issue of Empire magazine (No. 171). Kim has co-authored Empire's first Movie Almanac and it comes free with the current issue. It's full of fun facts and oddball trivia about the movie industry, including such quirky information as the "Quentin Tarantino Casting Venn Diagram" and a complete list of "Ray Harryhausen's Creatures."
May, 2003: According to a news item on e-publisher Scorpius's web site, it will produce an e-book version of Life's Lottery, in conjunction with Crow Street Press, in the autumn of 2003.; Both Polaris, the Czech publisher, and Timun Mas, the Spanish publisher, have released translations of Drachenfels in their respective countries.
January, 2003: Silver Nails, the collection of short stories published by the Black Library, was published in October of last year. Also, Kim has recently completed the linear notes for the BFI release of Ghostwatch, as well as writing the insert booklet for the DVD version of Straw Dogs.
September, 2002: Silver Nails, a short story collection published by the Black Library, is due out next month. It features "The Ignorant Armies" (from The Ignorant Armies), "Red Thirst" (from Red Thirst), "No Gold in the Grey Mountains" (from Wolf Riders), "Warhawk" (written at the time but not published; newly revised by Kim), and "The Ibby the Fish Factor" (an all-new Genevieve story that sees the return of many favourite characters from the previous three books).
July, 2002: Over the years Kim has been interviewed many times, and some of them are available on the web. They've been collected together and put in a separate section on the online page.
June, 2002: The design for Kim Newman's web site has changed, as has the address. We're now located permanently at www.johnnyalucard.com. There is even more information on Kim's work, including a foreign editions section in the bibliography area. Thanks to Kim, there are two new stories to read in the online fiction page: extracts from the forthcoming An English Ghost Story, and 'Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980'. Please explore the site and enjoy reading!
May, 2002: As part of its continuing effort to reprint some of Jack Yeovil's finest work, The Black Library published Beasts in Velvet in May 2002. The next book in the series will be Silver Knives, a new collection of shorter fiction Kim wrote for Games Workshop. It will contain "The Ignorant Armies" (from The Ignorant Armies), "Red Thirst" (from Red Thirst), "No Gold in the Grey Mountains" (from Wolf Riders), "Warhawk" (written at the time but not published; newly revised by Kim), and "The Ibby the Fish Factor" (an all-new Genevieve story that sees the return of many favourite characters from the previous three books).
April, 2002: The Ministry of Fear, the new horror division set up by Irish company Little Bird Films, will be producing a film of Kim's as-yet unpublished novel, An English Ghost Story. MoF have optioned the book, and Kim will be working on the script under the supervision of MoF's Lizzie Francke (director of the Edinburgh Film Festival) and producer Jonathan Cavendish (Bridget Jones' Diary, Gangster No 1, Croupier). No director and cast are set. An English Ghost Story is a contemporary supernatural story set in the West Country, about a troubled family and an unusual haunted house. You can read extracts from An English Ghost Story on this site.
January, 2002: The Black Library published Genevieve Undead in January 2002 as part of their drive to put the fantasy novels Kim wrote under the name Jack Yeovil back into print. The next book will be Beasts in Velvet due out on 6 May, 2002. After that a new collection of Kim's shorter Games Workshop fiction will be published, containing "The Ignorant Armies", "Red Thirst", "No Gold in the Grey Mountains", a previously unpublished novella called "Warhawk", and a brand new novella featuring Genevieve and friends.
November, 2001: Kim has written the first novella in the new Doctor Who series being produced by Telos Publishing. Called Time and Relative it is the first officially-sanctioned Doctor Who story featuring the Doctor and Susan, and is set before the start of the TV series itself. A must for all Dr. Who fans everywhere! Check out the photo from the official launch on November 23rd, at the The Stamp Centre in London.; Sight and Sound, the BFI's magazine, was due to publish a Science Fiction/Horror Reader in December 2002. It consists of a collection of articles from the magazine, edited by Kim. Its publication has been delayed, and I'll keep you informed when it will be launched.
September, 2001: Fans of the Jack Yeovil books will be delighted to hear that The Black Library, Games Workshop's publishing arm, will be re-releasing some of the novels Kim penned for them in the 1980s. Great news for a generation of Newman readers who have been unable to get their hands on these rare books. Here are the publication dates:
Drachenfels: 31 October, 2001
Genevieve Undead: 7 January, 2002
Beasts in Velvet: 6 May, 2002
Even more exciting, there will be a new collection (still untitled) containing "The Ignorant Armies", "Red Thirst", "No Gold in the Grey Mountains", a previously unpublished novella called "Warhawk", and a brand new novella featuring Genevieve and friends.; Congratulations to Kim for winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2001. The winning book was: Where the Bodies Are Buried, published by Alchemy Press.
July, 2001: "You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings", one of Kim's Anno Dracula stories that will be appearing in the forthcoming Johnny Alucard novel, was published in Horror Garage #3 in July. Copies are available directly from the publisher. Single Issues: $6.66. Check/M.O. to: Under The Volcano, P.O. Box 236, Neconset, NY 11767. Add $1 for Canadian Orders; $2 for Overseas Orders. You can also buy any 2 issues for $12, or all 3 for $18. And now you can subscribe: Yearly subscription (2 issues) is a low $10.; It's nominations time again, and Kim is up for several major awards. His short story, "Is There Anybody There?", published in the The New English Library Book of Internet Stories, has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. His collection, Where the Bodies Are Buried, published by Alchemy Press, is up for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Finally, 'The Other Side of Midnight' has been nominated for the Sidewise Award for Best Short Story.
June, 2001: Kim has completed a DVD project, the BFI's release of The Stone Tape, a 1972 BBC-TV ghost story written by Nigel Kneale and directed by Peter Sasdy. He supervised the extras, and created a feature-length interview/commentary with Mr. Kneale for the DVD. It's now available to buy from the BFI web site.; Kim has just written and directed a short film for The Studio, a UK cable channel. It 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. This short, short (100 seconds) is called Missing Girl and stars Maribel Jimenez and Stephen Jones. Hopefully it will go up on the Internet eventually so we can all see the results. It was shown in the cinema in London in late August as part of the Fright Fest horror festival.
April, 2001: A new photo of Kim Newman is up in the gallery page.; The paperback edition of Dracula Cha Cha Cha is now on sale in the UK.; This year Kim will be one of the Judges for the finalists of the James White Award.
January, 2001: Kim appeared in several episodes of Channel 4's recent series, SF/UK. He's also written an introductory chapter to the book of the same name.; The US DVD of The Vanishing, directed by George Sluizer, will contain notes written by Kim.
December, 2000: Binary 2, is available to buy - check out Amazon.co.uk for example. This novelette contains, "Andy Warhol's Dracula" by Kim, and "The Vaccinator" by Michael Marshall Smith.; The Alchemy Press has published Where the Bodies are Buried, the complete collection of the short stories of the same name. Go to the Alchemy Press web site for details about this book.
October, 2000: Fans of the Anno Dracula series will be happy to know that the next novel, Johnny Alucard, has been finished, however there is no publication date as of yet. The book uses the material from "Andy Warhol's Dracula", "Coppola's Dracula", "The Other Side of Midnight", "Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977", and "You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings" (just sold to Horror Garage, and not yet available). The largest section of the book is titled "A Concert for Transylvania", and will not appear before publication of the novel itself.; Kim is writing regular columns for the BBC Movies Web Site.