Kim Newman

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Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959 in London , Great Britain ) is a British film critic, journalist and writer of the horror genre . He also publishes under the pseudonym Jack Yeovil .

Life

Although born in London, Newman grew up in the countryside, the tiny village of Aller in Somerset . He attended school in Bridgwater (later he writes about his school days in the fictional "Sedgwater") and was active in the local theater group. Newman wrote his first novel when he was fifteen out of an interest in everything that was fantastic and scary. He studied English literature at the University of Sussex from 1980 and made a name for himself as a film and literary critic; first stories appeared in magazines such as Interzone . After graduating, he worked as a journalist for various London newspapers such as the weekly City Limits and the porn magazine Knave . His first success was in 1985 Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations , written together with Neil Gaiman , in which the two authors devoted themselves lovingly and ironically to the bad style of successful genre books; it was followed by a serious non-fiction book on the history of horror films. The first novel was published in 1989.

Publications

As Kim Newman

  • The Night Mayor (1989), German The Night in You , Goldmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-442-08129-7 .
  • Bad Dreams (1990)
  • Jago (1991)
  • Anno Dracula (1992), German Anno Dracula , Haffmans, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-251-00259-7 .
  • The Quorum (1994), German Das Quorum , Goldmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-442-08131-9 .
  • The Bloody Red Baron (1996), German The Red Baron , Haffmans, Zurich, ISBN 3-251-30114-4 .
  • Back in the USSA (1997)
  • Dracula Cha Cha Cha (1998), German Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha
  • Life's Lottery (1999)
  • Time and Relative (2001)
  • The vampires. Three novels Anno Dracula , The Red Baron and Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha in one volume. Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-53296-0 .

As Jack Yeovil

  • Drachenfels (1989)
  • Demon Download (1990)
  • Crocodile Tears (1990)
  • Comeback Tour (1991)
  • Beasts in Velvet (1993)
  • Genevieve Undead (1993)
  • Route 666 (1994)
  • Orgy of the Blood Parasites (1994)
  • Silver Nails (2002)
  • The Vampire Genevieve (2005)

Short stories

  • The Original Dr Shade, and Other Stories (1994)
  • Famous Monsters (1995)
  • Back in the USSA (1997)
  • Where the Bodies Are Buried (2000)
  • Seven Stars (2000)
  • Unforgivable Stories (2000)
  • Dead Travel Fast (2005)
  • The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006)
  • The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2007)
  • Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (2011)

Non-fiction

  • Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (with Neil Gaiman) (1985)
  • Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film Since 1968 (1985)
  • Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones) (1988)
  • Wild West Movies: Or How the West Was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten (1990)
  • The BFI Companion to Horror (1996)
  • Millennium Movies: End of the World Cinema (1999)
  • BFI Film Classics: Cat People (1999)
  • Science Fiction / Horror Sight and Sound Reader (2001)
  • BFI TV Classics: Doctor Who (2005)
  • Horror: Another 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones) (2005)
  • Horror: The Complete Guide to the Cinema of Fear (with James Marriott) (2005), German Horror: Masterpieces of Horror from Alien to Zombie , 2007. ISBN 978-3-85003-154-7 .

Awards

  • 1989 Bram Stoker Award , for the non-fiction book Horror: 100 Best Books
  • 1990 British Science Fiction Award , for the short story The Original Dr. Shade
  • 1992 Children of the Night Award, for Anno Dracula
  • 1994 Fiction Award of the Lord Ruthven Assembly, for Anno Dracula
  • 1994 International Horror Critics' Guild Award, for Anno Dracula
  • 1998 International Horror Guild Award, for the novella Coppola's Dracula
  • 1999 Prix ​​Ozone (France), for Anno Dracula
  • 2001 British Fantasy Award , for the short story collection Where the Bodies Are Buried
  • 2006 Bram Stoker Award, for the non-fiction book Horror: Another 100 Best Books

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personal data
SURNAME Newman, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yeovil, Jack (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film critic, journalist and writer of the horror genre
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH London