The concept was promising and the book was entertaining enough but it read like a Sherlock-Watson story only with Moriarty solving the mystery/problem while a baffled Moran looked on. I would have much preferred stories about the actual crimes that Moriarty planned and carried out and those stori...
In Victorian England, history has taken a peculiar turn: Queen Victoria has married Vlad Tepes, who has turned the Queen, restored her youth, and given her eternal life. With the Queen of England and her Prince Consort counted among the undead, it's not long before it becomes a fashionable choice...
With Book Three of the Anno Dracula series we reach the late 1950’s and 1960’s. A time of European opulence and Mediterranean glamour, epic film making and spy thrillers such as Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer. Not to mention vampires.Old Vlad (Count Dracula) is still aro...
This book contains the full-length novel "Bad Dreams," and also the novella/short story "Bloody Students." Both were originally written in 1990, and the author says in his afterword that they're both really products of the 1980s. Newman is probably best known for his "Anno Dracula" series, and al...
Jago begins with the Reverand Mr. Timothy Charles Bannerman claiming that they will be lead by an Angel on the road to Paradise. He has tiny English village of Alder to give up all earthly possession including the clothes the village worn to be burned in a fire. The next day, life continuing to...
Newman's ambitious rethinking of the legend of the diabolical pact emphasizes the destruction Faust (or in this case, the Quorum) causes others; here, personal damnation is directly related to the harm done to the innocent in the course of enjoying the pact's benefits.Newman is never dull, but fo...
An adult role-playing novel where the reader can choose different narrative options which can result in very different plot resolutions, highlighting our existential lives, where seemingly small decisions have monumental consequences.
Book Review: The Bloody Red Baronby Kim Newman This book is the startling sequel to the now classic Anno Dracula- the book that re-imagined Bram Stoker’s vampire tale with the premise that Dracula was not defeated by Van Helsing and his friends- but in fact triumphed and ceased control of the Bri...
This first novel is a highly entertaining and imaginative journey between fact, fiction, and fantasy in the depths of a city where it is always two-thirty in the morning and always raining. "The conventions of film noir are lovingly exploited in this entertaining novel".--New York Times Book Review.
Lucas was a lamentable cheat, almost ostentatiously... but lost, consistently. Sabin could have won most hands, but folded early... not bothered by winning or losing, and putting on a show as a distracted, exasperated logician. By the second deal, I knew Reverend Doone and Madame Valladon were pl...
He does not – cannot – understand the Hollow. No one who has not spent night after night after night under its roof can hope to fathom this place. The Mama understands, only too well. But not half so well as I. 13 February I barely remember Father, yet I am certain the portrait which hangs in the...
The small shop was seldom open for business and got little passing traffic. The front window was crowded with dusty dolls. All the fixed smiles and glass eyes reminded Kate of her childhood playroom. She’d been afraid of the old-fashioned, slightly battered dolls her aunts kindly passed on. The e...
On the stairs to Entomology, a small, black-blazered girl was ahead of her. Sidling between rows, she passed out of Amy’s sight. Was she ducking away from Amy or just looking for a book? Curious, she peeped into the narrow, shaded alleyway between tall, dusty shelves. It wasn’t Rayne, but Phair –...
Kate felt the laws of the universe bend out of true. This was how it was in the Royal Presence.Marcello noticed her hesitation. They held up traffic. A press of guests built outside the doors, like the fizz behind a champagne cork.They popped.Guests flowed through the corridors of the palazzo, pu...