Kim Newman is a popular and respected author and movie critic, known for his acclaimed alternate-history series, Anno Dracula. He writes regularly for Empire magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV, and is the chief writer of the BBC TV series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and James Herbert Awards. He lives in London.
Praise for Anno Dracula:
"Compulsory reading... Glorious" - Neil Gaiman
"Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to
love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that
most of us live with them... Anno Dracula is the definitive account
of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead." - New York
Times
"A brilliantly witty parallel-world saga... builds sure-footedly to
bravura climax which entirely redefines 'Victorian values'" - Daily
Telegraph
"Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative
novels of the year" - Seattle Times
"Politics, horror and romance are woven together in this
brilliantly imagined and realised novel. Newman's prose is a
delight, his attention to detail spellbinding" - Time Out
"A tour de force which succeeds brilliantly" - The Times
"A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue,
gothic horror and alternative history. Not to be missed." - The
Independent
"A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a
satisfying... read" - Washington Post Book World
"Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever
banquet of dark treats" - San Francisco Chronicle
"The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire
novel to date. 'Ultimate' seems an apt description... Anno Dracula
is at once playful, horrific, intelligent and revelatory...
Newman's prose will remain gloriously unique." - Locus
"Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it
for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks
almost every other vampire novel out for the count."
- Christopher Fowler
"Bloody excellent. Kim Newman has exsanguinated the best of fact
and fiction and created a vivid vampirous Victorian world uniquely
his own. This clever, delicious extravaganza - Hammer Horror meets
True (Blue) Blood - is just the tonic for the year of a Royal
Wedding." - Stephen Volk
"Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre's
ongoing revolution." - Paul McAuley
"Kim Newman's answer to Thatcher's 'Victorian Values'" - TLS
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
