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...
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...