Kim Newman Books in Order

A lively nonfiction survey of films that changed the conversation around sex on screen. Newman mixes capsule history, criticism, and pop-cultural context to show how certain movies left a lasting mark.

One of Newman's best-known nonfiction books, this is a wide-ranging guide to modern horror cinema. He tracks major films, subgenres, trends, and directors with the mix of enthusiasm and sharp judgment that suits the subject.

A smart tour through end-of-the-world cinema, from nuclear dread to biblical collapse. Newman looks at how film keeps imagining the finish line, and why apocalypse is such a durable popular obsession.

A broad reference book for horror readers and film fans, surveying major works, creators, and recurring ideas across the genre. It is designed as a map through a very large, very haunted field.

Playwright Detlef Sierck and the vampire Genevieve travel to the cursed castle of Drachenfels for a grand theatrical performance. The Great Enchanter may be dead, but his shadow is still very much in the room.

In a future ruled by immersive Dreams, Tom Tunney and Susan Bishopric must enter a noir city built by a criminal mind. Inside this endless midnight, story rules are deadly, and the Night Mayor seems to control every shadow.

A demonic computer virus starts taking over the world's networks in this violent dystopian thriller. Trooper Nathan Stack and the formidable Chantal Juillerat have to stop it before technology and possession become the same thing.

Krokodil is a cyborg killer, former juvenile delinquent, and unwilling host to something from beyond reality. Hunted by assassins on all sides, she has to survive a world that wants her dead for several different reasons.

In the poisoned wastelands of a broken America, Trooper Leona Tyree escorts evangelist Elder Nguyen Seth toward a promised land. The trip turns into a savage road movie of occult menace, satire, and bad faith on wheels.

Newman turns his critic's eye to the western, tracing the myths, stars, and changing shapes of the genre on film. It is both a history and a brisk guide to what made these movies endure.

Dreams stop being private when a predatory force begins rifling through fear, memory, and desire. As nightmares spill into waking life, the people caught in its path must fight a menace that knows exactly how to get under the skin.

In one of Newman's wildest alternate futures, Elvis Presley is still alive and working as a sanctioned operative. To save what remains of the world, he has to fight through the South against racists, mutants, and voodoo terror.

Paul and Hazel come to an English village for a quiet summer and find nature itself starting to warp. As a vast rock festival swells around the place, the arrival of Jago turns ecstasy, faith, and bodily horror into one catastrophe.

In an 1888 where Queen Victoria has married Dracula, London is filling with vampires and terror. Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard hunt the killer targeting vampire women in Whitechapel, while the new regime tightens its grip.

A killer prowls the city during carnival, using a beast disguise to turn murder into public panic. Set in the Warhammer world but shaped like a mystery, this is Genevieve at her most noir and political.

In three linked novellas, Genevieve moves through theatres, haunted houses, and dark forests in search of purpose and survival. The Warhammer world gives her monsters, magicians, and hunters, but no easy place to belong.

An early collection that shows Newman hopping between horror, satire, weird science fiction, and detective play. The stories are inventive, restless, and already full of the pop-cultural mischief that marks his later work.

A strange being rises from the Thames and sets in motion a deal that will poison several lives for decades. Three ambitious friends gain success and glamour, but the price of their bargain keeps growing darker.

A rich short-story collection full of monsters, movie echoes, occult cases, and sideways genre riffs. Newman moves easily from cosmic dread to black comedy, with several stories that later connect to his larger fictional world.

World War I becomes a war of the living and the undead when Dracula commands the Central Powers. Charles Beauregard, Edwin Winthrop, and reporter Kate Reed are drawn into espionage, aerial horror, and a monstrous ace in the sky.

This sharp alternate-history story looks at America through a warped political mirror, mixing satire with dark speculation. Newman uses a familiar public image and twists it into a tale about myth, power, and the stories nations tell themselves.

This slim paired volume includes Newman's vampire novella Andy Warhol's Dracula alongside another dark fantastical piece. It is a compact showcase for his taste for pop culture collision, blood, and sly alternate-world wit.

Rome, 1959. As Dracula prepares to marry Princess Asa Vajda, journalist Kate Reed arrives in a city buzzing with glamour and dread, then finds herself chasing the Crimson Executioner, a killer targeting vampire elders.

This sly Anno Dracula novella drops vampire myth into the art and movie worlds of 1970s America. A troubled film project, celebrity circles, and blood-soaked pop culture combine into a stylish little nightmare.

You guide Keith Marion through the branching possibilities of his life, from ordinary choices to disastrous turns. Part gamebook, part dark comedy, and part existential trap, it asks how much any life is shaped by chance.

Another survey of screen apocalypses and end-times fantasies, this one looking at how cinema imagines collapse, judgment, and survival. Newman is interested in both the spectacle and the anxieties driving it.

A creepy little time-slip tale in which modern technology and older occult practices meet head-on. An online predator reaches across decades toward a young psychic, turning long-distance contact into something far more invasive and dangerous.

A linked collection of stories that opens secret passages between several corners of Newman's fiction. Expect Egyptian curses, eerie Sussex unease, Diogenes Club connections, and the pleasure of watching separate tales quietly lock together.

A compact look at British science fiction and its peculiar flavor, from futurist optimism to national unease. Newman sketches the genre's key images, creators, and recurring moods in a quick, readable overview.

This collection reopens old cases from horror and fantasy and gives them sharp new angles. Dracula, Jekyll, alternate history, and ghost-story echoes all return, filtered through Newman's playful and unsettling imagination.

This collection gathers the linked Where the Bodies Are Buried stories, darkly funny pieces about horror culture, moral panic, and killings that blur fandom, media obsession, and real-life menace. It is nasty, smart, and very Newman.

Set before the first Doctor Who television story, this novella follows the Doctor and Susan in 1963 before everything starts. Newman uses the gap to explore time slippage, family tension, and the First Doctor's alien edge.

This collection gathers dark Warhammer stories about Genevieve and the crooked world around her. Murder, monster hunts, old grudges, and uneasy heroics run through tales that widen the scope of the Vampire Genevieve sequence.

A varied collection of short fiction that moves between vampires, monsters, occult noir, and metafictional play. It is a good snapshot of how easily Newman can shift tone while keeping the same sly, unsettling energy.

Another wide-ranging horror reference, gathering criticism, recommendations, and genre history in one place. Newman uses the book to connect major titles and the fears, monsters, and traditions that keep recurring.

Richard Jeperson, psychic investigator for a secret branch of British intelligence, takes on cases too odd for anyone else. Sentient snowmen, Soho horrors, and national weirdness make this linked collection a strong introduction to the series.

Britain's strangest secret service opens more case files in this linked collection. Across different decades, Diogenes Club agents confront occult threats, impossible crimes, and a country that keeps attracting the wrong kind of miracle.

An illustrated guide to horror cinema that races from silent shocks to modern nightmares. Newman helps chart the genre's landmarks, creatures, and directors without losing sight of what makes these films fun to talk about.

From the nineteenth century to the 1970s, this collection opens more Diogenes Club files. Agents face fairies, fish-folk, occult plots, and national nightmares in stories that deepen the series' weird secret history.

This expanded version of Newman's horror-film landmark revisits decades of screen terror with more range and context. It is part history, part critical guide, and ideal for readers who like horror beyond the obvious classics.

Told through Colonel Moran's memoirs, this flips the Sherlock Holmes world inside out. Professor Moriarty and his right-hand man chase hounds, scandals, and imperial mischief in a witty anti-Holmes adventure.

A brisk, reality-bending Newman piece that traps its characters inside a world driven by pulp logic and spectacle. It moves fast, gets weird quickly, and turns action-story machinery into part of the menace.

Newman takes a close look at Cat People as horror, myth, and cinema history all at once. It is a compact critical study of the film's mood, themes, and long afterlife in popular culture.

A later edition of Newman's horror-movie companion, packed with brisk commentary and genre overview. It is a handy guide for readers who want a broad tour of the films that shaped the field.

A young vampire exile remakes himself in America as Johnny Pop, feeding on celebrity culture and blood-soaked fashion. As he rises through 1970s and 1980s New York and Hollywood, old horrors return in a new form.

A troubled family leaves the city for an old Somerset house that first seems to heal them. Then the home begins to learn their weaknesses, turning domestic hope into a slow, intimate haunting.

This brisk film study revisits one of British science fiction horror's essential stories. Newman explores alien influence, buried history, and why Quatermass and the Pit still feels unsettling decades later.

This gathering of gothic tales leans into old houses, strange inheritances, and moods of lingering dread. Newman uses classic ghost-story furniture, but he always finds a way to make the room feel newly dangerous.

A collection built around transformation, mutation, and bodies refusing to stay put. These stories show Newman's taste for grotesque imagery, uneasy identity shifts, and the point where horror starts rewriting flesh itself.

Amy Thomsett is sent to a Somerset boarding school after being found asleep on the ceiling. There she discovers girls with odd gifts, a hooded conspiracy, and a missing pupil who pushes her to form the secret Moth Club.

Under the Paris Opera House, Erik the Phantom runs a hidden network of female operatives. During the 1910 flood, murder and corruption draw Irene Adler, Kate Reed, and others into a case that exposes the city's rotten underside.

This big collection gathers Newman's long-running reviews of horror and cult movies. The pleasure is in the range, the jokes, and the way even a cheap oddity can become interesting under his eye.

Exiled vampires arrive in 1899 Tokyo hoping for refuge, but Yōkai Town proves anything but safe. When a murderer starts turning vampire against vampire, Geneviève must uncover what is really hidden inside this uneasy sanctuary.

In this shared-world anthology, Michael Marshall Smith joins other writers exploring the Lovecraft Squad, a secret war against cults and cosmic threats. The stories mix pulp adventure, espionage, and creeping cosmic horror.

Another Lovecraft Squad volume, this anthology sends the Human Protection League against Mythos forces amid major moments in twentieth-century history. Smith's contribution sits inside a bigger, pulpy web of secret wars and supernatural dread.

Amy and the Moth Club are back, older and more capable, but Drearcliff has grown stranger too. A limping ghost called the Broken Doll ties itself to Amy's life and threatens to become the school's worst nightmare yet.

On New Year's Eve in Tokyo, a glittering vampire party turns into a siege. Thrown out of a dragon-shaped tower full of killers, schoolgirl agent Nezumi has to fight her way back up before midnight.

Late 1930s Hollywood gets darker when Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff begin investigating a monstrous mystery. Beneath the studio gloss lies mad science, murder, and a city where the monsters are not confined to the screen.

Angie and her son Rust try to prepare for Christmas in their isolated Somerset home, then the cards start arriving. Each new message deepens the dread, linking the holiday season to a half-remembered nightmare from childhood.

In an alternate Britain transformed by a Beatles album that gave people superpowers, soap actress Chrissie Chambers suddenly discovers powers of her own. A missing aunt and a supervillain takeover push her into becoming something much bigger.