Kim Newman
English film critic and novelist of horror and alternate history; Anno Dracula.
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- Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer focused on film history, horror and alternate history.
- He is a contributing editor to Empire, where he writes "Kim Newman's Video Dungeon", and writes for Sight and Sound.
- His novel Anno Dracula (1992) is set in an 1888 in which Dracula rules England.
Key facts
- Born
- 31 July 1959, Brixton, London1
- Education
- BA in English, University of Sussex (1980)1
- Non-fiction
- Ghastly Beyond Belief (1985, with Neil Gaiman); Nightmare Movies (1988); BFI Companion to Horror (1996)1
- Fiction
- The Night Mayor (1989); Anno Dracula (1992) and its sequels; Warhammer and Dark Future novels as Jack Yeovil1
- Awards
- Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, BSFA Award1
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