Unforgivable Stories (Paperback)

He takes a look at familiar places with fresh eyes; his 40’s Paris is a city of archetypes, of Phantoms, courtesans and world-weary Americans, of an American city where superheroes have been around since the 1930’s and reinvented themselves and the city for new generations and of an England in the 60’s caught in a war with Indo-China, being fought by the great "heroes" of British sit-coms. Kim also looks at the alternative histories that could have resulted in John Major managing to get a job with London Transport and of a90’s Britain celebrating the successful fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion.

Including stories written in collaboration with novelists Eugene Byrne (author of THiGMOO) and Paul J. McAuley (author of Fairyland), this collection weaves horror and humour from the familiar stories and alternative possibilities of the universe.

Kim Newman is an author, a film expert and critic, an enthusiastic pundit of SF writing, and one of Britain’s great eccentrics. Born in Brixton in 1959, he grew up in Somerset, graduated in English at Sussex University, before coming to London in 1980 working with the Bridgwater Arts and Entertainment Collective as a kazoo player and cabaret performer. He is the author of several specialist film books and is a regular film reviewer for Empire and Sight And Sound magazines.

Kim has published highly successful novels with Simon & Schuster: The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, The Quorum, Life’s Lottery and his reworkings of the Dracula mythology Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and the most recent in the series Dracula Cha Cha Cha plus collections of short stories: Famous Monsters and The Original Dr Shade.

Anno Dracula won the Children of the Night Award for Best Novel from the Dracula Society and the Best Novel Award from the Lord Ruthven Assembly. It was also a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. The Quorum, Dr Shade and Anno Dracula have all been optioned for movies.

Kim is currently working on a new novel An English Ghost Story, and with Eugene Byrne, a novel cycle entitled The Matter of Britain. He lives in Islington, north London and has written 8½ novels.