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WFA nominated short story. It orignally appeared in the anthology 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense (1999), edited by Al Sarrantonio. The story can also be found in anthologies The Mammoth Book of New Terror (2004), and The Dead That Walk: Flesh-Eating Stories (2009), both edited by Stephen Jones. It is included in the collections Unforgivable Stories (2000), Dead Travel Fast (2005) and Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (2017).

The Naremores, a dysfunctional British nuclear family, seek to solve their problems and start a new life away from the city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their perfect new home seems to embrace them, its endless charms creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But as they grow closer, the house begins to turn on them, and seems to know just how to hurt them the most – threatening to destroy them from the inside out.

Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French Government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye.

The toxic underbelly of Paris is exposed by Erik's tenacious women operatives as they confront horror and corruption throughout the city. But it is one dreadful murder during the 1910 Great Flood of Paris that brings Irene Adler, Kate Reed and others together for a final, deadly confrontation.

A brand new collection of chilling stories by master of horror Kim Newman, in which Jack the Ripper still stalks the streets, Frankenstein's monster rises from the Arctic ice, and the terrifying legacy of Dr Jeyll and Mr Hyde haunts fog-shrouded London. This volume also includes a brand-new, exclusive Anno Dracula story, 'Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899', which sets the scene for the forthcoming novel Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju.

Table of Contents:

• Famous Monsters - (1988) - short story
• A Drug on the Market - (2001) - novelette
• Illimitable Dominion - (2009) - novelette
• Just Like Eddy - (1999) - short story
• Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue - (1999) - novelette
• The Chill Clutch of the Unseen - (2004) - short story
• One Hit Wanda - (2011) - short story
• Is There Anybody There? - (2000) - novelette
• The Intervention - (2003) - short story
• Red Jacks Wild - (2015) - novelette
• Sarah Minds the Dog - (2014) - novelette
• The Snow Sculptures of Xanadu - (1991) - short story
• The Pale Spirit People - (1994) - short story
• Ubermensch - (1991) - short story
• Coastal City - (1997) - short story
• Completist Heaven - (1994) - short story
• Une Étrange Aventure de Richard Blaine - (1999) - short story
• Frankenstein on Ice - (2016) - short fiction
• Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899 - short story

1989... One of the two superpowers which has dominated the 20th century is on the verge of being torn apart. The old communists regime which has held sway since the Revolution of 1917 is weak and divided. Dissident voices, silent for too long, have been raised against the corrupt and inefficient gangsterism of a morally and financially bankrupt ruling party. A new age of openness and reconstruction is dawning...

This is the United Socialist States of America.

When Eugene Debs led the Revolution, few expected it to lead to the iron-fisted regime of Chairman Al "Scarface" Capone, a dictatorship that would last into the 1950s. But no tyranny, capitalist or communists, can stop real revolutionaries like Buddy Holy, Howard Hughes, Tom Joad, Eliot Ness, Kurt Vonnegut, andthe Blues Brothers.

This is the story of 20th century where America had a revolution... and Russia didn't; where there were Tsars in the Kremlin and Commissars in the White House. Where America invaded Japan and Britain fought the war in Vietnam; where Isaac Asimov was a Russian TV astrologer and Ed Gein was a Hero of Labor.

Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne turn history on its head with this novel of "what if...?"--a must-read for Proletariats world-wide!

Table of Contents:

• In the Air - (1991) - novella
• Ten Days That Shook the World - (1991) - novelette
• Tom Joad - (1992) - novelette
• Teddy Bears' Picnic - novella
• Citizen Ed - (1996) - novelette
• Abdication Street - (1996) - novella
• On the Road - novella

A Martian recalls his career in Hollywood making sci-fi and horror B-movies.

This short story originally appeared in Interzone, #23 Spring 1988. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (1989), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Famous Monsters (1995), Dead Travel Fast (2005) and Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (2017).

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology New Worlds (1997), edited by David Garnett. It can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 3 (1998), edited by David G. Hartwell. The story is included in the collection Unforgivable Stories (2000).

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Horrorology (2015), edited by Stephen Jones.

Horror: Another 100 Best Books features one hundred of the top names in the horror field discussing one hundred of the most spine-chilling novels ever written. Each entry includes a synopsis of the work as well as publication history, biographical information about the author of each title, and recommended reading and biographical notes on the contributor. Author Ramsey Campbell also offers a new foreword to the book describing the evolution of horror over the past two decades — from the way it's written by a crop of new and exciting writers to the way it's received by a new market of readers. Horror: Another 100 Best Books will be the definitive guide to the tremendous library of horror fiction available today —a reference that no fan can live without.

Selections range from Tourneur/Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (1607) to Michael Marshall Smith's More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003).

Editors Jones and Newman have paired horror's leading authors with the genre's milestones, featuring Peter Straub on Stephen King, Nell Gaiman on Anthony Boucher, Joe R. Lansdale on Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clive Barker on Christopher Marlowe, and many equally inspired matches.

The book consists of reviews of 100 books in chronological order, ranging from 1592 (Marlow's Doctor Faustus) to 1987 (Campbell's Dark Feasts). Unlike Pringle's seminal 100 Best books, this book features reviews from 100 different reviewers, so there are inevitable variances in taste, style and approach.

The books and authors covered in this volume are the basis for our Horror: 100 Best Books list.

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology The New English Library Book of Internet Stories (2000), edited by Maxim Jakubowski. The story can also be found in the anthologies Keep Out the Night (2002), edited by Stephen Jones, and The Time Traveler's Almanac (2014), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It is included in the collections Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (2017).

BFA and WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Werewolves (1994), edited by Stephen Jones. It can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 6 (1995), edited by Stephen Jones. The story is included in the collection Famous Monsters (1995).

Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Prof. James Moriarty - wily, snake- like, fiercely intelligent, unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran - violent,politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike. Unravelling mysteries -- all for their own gain.

A spin-off from Titan's highly successful Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, The Hound of the D'Urbervilles sees acclaimed novelist Kim Newman (Anno Dracula) take on the fiendish Professor Moriarty.

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared onn Sci Fiction, October 13, 2004. The story can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 (2005), edited by Stephen Jones. It is included in the collection The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006).

Read this story online at the SciFiction archive.

In 1961, Derek Leech emerges fully formed from the polluted Thames, destined to found a global media empire. In 1978, three ambitious young men strike a deal with Leech. They are offered wealth, glamour, and success, but a price must be paid. In 1994, Leech's purpose moves to its conclusion, and as the men struggle, they realize to truth of the ultimate price.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology New Worlds 1 (1991), edited by David Garnett. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (2017).

Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (1997) edited by Stephen Jones. It can also be found in the anthologies The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 (1998) and In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count (2017), both edited by Stephen Jones.

Read the full story for free at Infinity Plus.

In an alternate history of the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria has married Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula, leading to a reign of terror, while, in Whitechapel, Silver Knife, a murderer of vampire girls, threatens the new regime.

While Graf von Dracula commands the German army and Baron von Richthofen spreads terror in the skies during World War I, a resurrected Edgar Allan Poe is commissioned by the Germans to write a fabulous biography of the Red Baron.

This novel was published as Dracula Cha Cha Cha in the UK.

Rome, 1959. Remember? The Via Veneto, la dolce vita. Coins in the fountain, trysts in cafes, midnight bacchanals, parties till dawn. We danced giddily to the music of the Dracula Cha Cha. Paparazzi were flashing bulbs everywhere, and the vampire press had gathered to cover the upcoming social event of at least several centuries: the October wedding of Vlad, Count Dracula, in Italian exile from Transylvania, to the Moldavian princess Asa Vajda. Rumor had it that the marriage marked the first step in the vampire king's campaign to restore his power and position as Lord of the Undead. Vampire star reporter Kate was there. She got detoured in her pursuit of a scoop on the royal couple not by coins but by corpses in the Fontana di Trevi. All over Rome, in fact, vampire elders were falling in the gory path of a flamboyant murderer known only as the Crimson Executioner. Undead British secret agent Bond, a vampire with a license to kill, was called in on the case, but ultimately the fates of all of us - the lovers, knaves, monsters, and revelers, as well as Count Dracula himself - were determined by the ancient-of-ancients Mater Lachrymarum: child, saint, harlot, crone, and Italy's own Mother of Tears.

DRACULA COMES TO NEW YORK: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with theVampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century - this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series.

Newman's dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker's Dr. John Seward and enslaved Victorian England?

Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments, Dracula seems long gone. A relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard descends upon America, stalking the streets of New York and Hollywood, haunting the lives of the rich and famous, from Sid and Nancy to Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of 1980s America, it seems the past might not be dead after all.

"There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong..."

In 1899 Geneviève Dieudonné travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled from Great Britain by Prince Dracula. They are allowed to settle in Yokai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan's own vampires, an altogether strange and less human breed than the nosferatu of Europe. Yet it is not the sanctuary they had hoped for, as a vicious murderer sets vampire against vampire, and Yokai Town is revealed to be more a prison than a refuge. Geneviève and her undead comrades will be forced to face new enemies and the horrors hidden within the Temple of One Thousand Monsters...

It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building in the shape of a giant mechanical dragon - in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance, culture and innovation.

After a century overshadowed by the malign presence of Dracula, Christina decrees the inauguration of an Age of Light. The world is connected as never before by technology, and conquests have been made in cyberspace that mark out new nations of the living and the undead.

But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls, intent on ensuring that the brave new world dies before it can come to fruition. The distinguished guests are held hostage by cyberpunk terrorists, yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries. Vampire schoolgirl Nezumi - sword-wielding agent of the Diogenes Club - finds herself alone, pitted against the world's deadliest creatures. Thrown out of the party, she must fight her way back up through a building that seems designed to destroy her in a thousand ways. Can Nezumi survive past midnight? Can the hopes of a shining world?

A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy's, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black hoods, Amy forms a secret, superpowered society called the Moth Club to rescue their friend. They soon discover that the Hooded Conspiracy runs through the School, and it's up to the Moth Club to get to the heart of it.

The stunning new novel starring the superpowered Amy Thomsett from the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula.

Of course, Drearcliff Grange School was haunted.

Amy Thomsett - the girl who flies on moth wings - is confident she can solve any mystery, sleuth out any secret and defy any dark force. With her friends in the Moth Club she travels to London to take part in the Great Game, a contest of skill against other institutes of learning. In a nightmare, and in the cellars of a house in Piccadilly, Amy glimpses a spectre who might have dogged her all her life, the Broken Doll. Wherever the limping ghost is seen, terror strikes. And the lopsided, cracked-face, glass-eyed creature might well be the most serious threat the Moth Club have ever faced.

Truro Daine, a dangerous criminal who has been confined to imprisonment, escapes his incarceration by inventing a computer-generated dream world, which he rules as the Night Mayor.

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.

The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.

The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...

Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the collection The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (2006). The story can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 (2007), edited by Stephen Jones.

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the collection The Man from the Diogenes Club (2006). The story can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 (2007), edited by Stephen Jones.

In the swinging seventies, Richard Jeperson?secret agent of the Diogenes Club?solves crimes too strange for Britain's police. His fashion sense is gaudy, his enemies deadly, his associates glamorous.

Table of Contents:

• End of the Pier Show - (1997) - short story
• You Don't Have to Be Mad ... - (1999) - novelette
• Tomorrow Town - (2000) - novelette
• Egyptian Avenue - (2002) - short story
• Soho Golem - (2004) - novella
• The Serial Murders - (2005) - novella
• The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train - (2006) - novella
• Swellhead - (2004) - novella by Kim Newman
• Notes - essay by Kim Newman
• Afterword - essay by Kim Newman
• About the Author - (2006) - essay by uncredited

From the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more of the secrets of the British Empire's most secret service.

Table of Contents:

• The Gypsies in the Wood - (2005) - novella
• Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in "The Case of the French Spy" - (2005) - novelette
• Angel Down, Sussex - (1999) - novella
• Clubland Heroes - (2006) - novelette
• The Big Fish - (1993) - novelette
• Another Fish Story - (2005) - novelette
• Cold Snap - (2007) - short story
• Notes - (2007) - essay by Kim Newman
• Who's Who - (2007) - essay by Kim Newman

From the 1860s to the present day, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm-and this entire plane of existence-from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more mysteries of the British Empire's most secret service.

Table of Contents:

• Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch - (2008) - novella
• Kentish Glory - (2010) - short fiction
• Moon Moon Moon - (2009) - novella
• Organ Donors - (1992) - novelette
• Seven Stars - (1999) - novella

The "Warhammer" world is a land of grim fantasy and perilous adventure, threatened by the Dark Powers. This dark tale of magic and horror is the first story of Detlef Scerick, greatest playwright and impresario in the "Warhammer" world.

In the Imperial capital of Altdorf, a killer stalks the streets. Nicknamed The Beast by those who have seen the remains of his victims all evidence points to the haughty members of the Imperial court, the wealthy and privileged who are a law unto themselves.

Humanity was not the first species to walk amongst the stars. Their existance is a mere blink of an eye to those immortal beings that still exist. Now a discovery has been made that may lead to a savage upheaval in their aeon-long dormancy. A race will begin for an ancient device of galaxy-destroying power.

Vukotich went tense again, and Genevieve put her hand on his chest, restraining him. She felt his heart beating fast and realized her nails were growing longer, turning to claws. She regained control and her fingerknives dwindled. Vukotach was bleeding slightly, from the mouth. She had cut him when they kissed. A shudder of pleasure ran through her as she rolled the traces of his blood around her mouth. She swallowed, and felt warm.