3. The Secrets of Drearcliffe Grange School by Kim NewmanKim Newman takes on the boarding school story, with spooky and nefarious stuff going on, in a slightly alternate world where there are people with Unusual abilities who are useful to the government but socially frowned upon ( Read more... )

8. Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard by Kim NewmanFrancis Ford Coppola goes to Transylvania to film a ruinously expensive version of Dracula in the 1970s, and the entourage comes back with a new-born vampire peasant boy, Ion Popescu. Who promptly reinvents himself as Johnny Pop, and becomes a mover and shaker in the Studio 54 scene and associate of ( Read more... )

50 Jago and other Stories by Kim Newman ( Read more... )

52. Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles by Kim NewmanI've been looking forward to this since it came out. It's more or less the Sherlock Holmes universe from the point of view of Watson's opposite number in the Professor Moriarty enterprise, Colonel Moran, with a whole lot of other elements from early genre fiction thrown in. And ( Read more... )