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Kim Newman (b. 1959) was born in Brixton, London. A novelist, critic and broadcaster, he has worked extensively in the theatre, radio and television. His novels include The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, Anno Dracula, The Quorum, The Bloody Red Baron, Back in the U.S.S.A. (with Eugene Byrne), Dracula Cha Cha Cha (aka Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959), Life’s Lottery, Doctor Who: Time and Relative and An English Ghost Story.

His short stories are collected in The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories, Famous Monsters, Seven Stars, Unforgivable Stories, Where the Bodies Are Buried, Dead Travel Fast and The Man From the Diogenes Club.

Under the name “Jack Yeovil” he has also written a number of titles in the "Warhammer" and "Dark Future" series from Games Workshop, plus the original novel Orgy of the Blood Parasites.

A winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Children of the Night Award, the Fiction Award of the Lord Ruthven Assembly and two International Horror Guild Awards, his non fiction books include Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books (both with Stephen Jones), Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film Since 1968, Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies, BFI Film Classics: Cat People and TV Classics: Doctor Who.

With Paul McAuley he edited the anthology In Dreams, and he has scripted television and radio documentaries. He is a consulting editor at Empire and Sight & Sound magazines. Newman’s story “Week Woman” was made as an episode of the Canadian TV series The Hunger in 1999, and he wrote and directed the short short film Missing Girl in 2001. He is a Guest of Honor at the 2006 World Horror Convention in San Francisco.