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Kim Newman

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Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.
An expert on horror and sci-fi cinema , Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. He is complexly and irreverently referential; the Dracula sequence--Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha--not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith.
In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. His pseudonymous novels, as Jack Yeovil, play elegant games with genre cliche--perhaps the best of these is the sword-and-sorcery novel Drachenfels which takes the prescribed formulae of the games company to whose bible it was written and make them over entirely into a Kim Newman novel.
Life's Lottery, his most mainstream novel, consists of multiple choice fragments which enable readers to choose the hero's fate and take him into horror, crime and sf storylines or into mundane reality.

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Kim Newman

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Books from Kim Newman

Shadows over Innsmouth

Anno Dracula

Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

The Bloody Red Baron

Lovecraft's Monsters

An English Ghost Story

Drachenfels

Vampires: The Recent Undead

The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

Dracula Cha Cha Cha

Johnny Alucard

Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder, Vol. 3: The Mysteries of Unland

The Fair Folk

The Vampire Genevieve

The Vampire Archives

Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s

Beasts in Velvet

Horror: The 100 Best Books

Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

The Vampire Sextette