He also contributes to Rotten Tomatoes, Venue, ' Video Watchdog' ('The Perfectionist's Guide to Fantastic Video') and Sight & Sound.

Newman acts as one of several contributing editors to the UK film magazine Empire, as well as writing the monthly segment, 'Kim Newman's Video Dungeon' in which he gives often scathing reviews of recently released straight-to-video horror films. Both books comprise 100 essays by 100 horror writers about 100 horror books and both won the annual Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction. Newman and Stephen Jones jointly edited Horror: 100 Best Books, the 1988 horror volume in Xanadu's 100 Best series, and also Horror: Another 100 Best Books, a 2005 sequel from Carroll & Graf, U.S. Newman's non-fiction also includes the BFI Companion to Horror (1996). Nightmare Movies was followed by Wild West Movies: Or How the West Was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten (1990) and Millennium Movies: End of the World Cinema (1999). An expanded edition, an update of his overview of post-1968 genre cinema, was published in 2011. Newman's first two books were both non-fiction Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (1985), co-written with his friend Neil Gaiman, is a light-hearted tribute to entertainingly bad prose in fantastic fiction, and Nightmare Movies: A critical history of the horror film, 1968–88 (1988) is a serious history of horror films. Non-fictionĮarly in his career, Newman was a journalist for the magazines City Limits and Knave. He studied English at the University of Sussex and set a short story, Angel Down, Sussex (1999) in the area.

Morgan's Grammar School in Bridgwater, and set his experimental semi-autobiographical novel Life's Lottery (1999) in a fictional version of the town named Sedgwater.

Kim James Newman was born 31 July 1959 in London, the son of Bryan Michael Newman and Julia Christen Newman, both potters. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction-both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven-and alternate fictional versions of history. Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Newman at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY

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