Kim Newman

“Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.”

— Kim Newman

“Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been…

— Kim Newman

“No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual…

— Kim Newman

“Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile. And I relaxed. I knew . My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d…

— Kim Newman

“Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to…

— Kim Newman

“There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie…

— Kim Newman

“The Firm would go to war! Not soon enough, said I. For I wasn’t content to be content, to grow plump and…

— Kim Newman

“Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only…

— Kim Newman

“Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.”

— Kim Newman

“In a battle which might interest scholars of modern urban warfare, the Conduit Street Comanche whipped the tar out of an irregular…

— Kim Newman

“Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and…

— Kim Newman

“W ere you aware,’ began Lord Ruthven, ‘that there are people in these isles whose sole objection to the marriage of our…

— Kim Newman

“Quite a few vampires, especially the elders, regarded those who creep through graveyard shadows in batwing capes and fingerless black gloves as…

— Kim Newman

“We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.”

— Kim Newman

“Impaler,’ she declared, ‘I have no equal.”

— Kim Newman

“Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a…

— Kim Newman

“He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of…

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“How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?' The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.”

— Kim Newman

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of…

— Kim Newman

“Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,’ the Professor said, patiently.”

— Kim Newman

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and…

— Kim Newman