Kim Newman

Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction — both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven — and alternate versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

External links

• The Kim Newman Web Site — official site
• Stories online
• On Newman's website
• Who Dares, Wins (A-D alternate history: the SAS raid on the terrorist-held Iranian embassy in April 1980, with vampires)
• Coastal City (how shifting continuities in comics universes affect the people in them, from their point of view)
• Hosted by Infinity Plus
• The Pierce-Arrow Stalled, and... (alternate history: Hollywood without the Hays Code)
• The McCarthy Witch Hunt (alternate history: McCarthyism as a hunt for actual witches)
• Coppola's Dracula (A-D alternate history: the making of Apocalypse Now, with vampires)
• Hosted by the SciFi Channel
• Tomorrow Town (Diogenes Club agents investigate a murder in a community created in imitation of the gleaming future depicted in 1960s scifi)
• Soho Golem (Diogenes Club agents investigate the murders of a string of Soho vice lords by a vengeful spirit)
• Castle in the Desert (A-D alternate history: Raymond Chandler, with vampires)
• Hosted by bbc.co.uk:
• Mildew Manor, or The Italian Smile (parody of gothic horror)
• A Shambles in Belgravia (Professor Moriarty vs. Irene Adler)
• The Wandering Christian (with Eugene Byrne; alternate history: Constantine loses the Battle of Milvian Bridge; without him, Christianity and the Roman Empire collapse)