![]() I’ve worked all over town, as it were, and sometimes people aren’t even aware that Kim Newman, the film critic, and Kim Newman, the novelist, are the same person. If you were to ask different people what my most notable work was, different folks would say the Anno Dracula series (novels under my own name), Nightmare Movies (non-fiction), Drachenfels (young adult fantasy written as Jack Yeovil), Life’s Lottery (odd semi-mainstream experimental novel) or various broadcasting things. ![]() Even before that, I loved Marvel comics, Dr Who, The Avengers, HG Wells, Biggles and the like, but when I caught the monster bug, which extended to the Aurora hobby kits and other arcana, I almost incidentally became a horror writer.Ī tough question for any writer – and probably tougher for me since I’ve worked in a variety of fields. Almost the next day, I wrote a one-page version of the story as a play and, ever since, I’ve been writing horror. ![]() ![]() What first attracted you to horror writing?Ī turning point in my life was seeing Dracula (1930) on TV circa 1970. ![]()
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