by Kim Newman
She froze a dog to death.
Unorna Light
You are not a white witch.
She is what she wishes to be.
Venetia Laurence
You have cause to hurt them all.
She hates her blessing.
Acknowledgements
THANKS ARE DUE to the Titan team of Cath Trechman, Jill Sawyer Phypers, Martin Stiff, Lydia Gittens, Vivien Cheung and Nick Landau.
About the Author
KIM NEWMAN IS a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, the Anno Dracula novels and stories, The Quorum and Life’s Lottery, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, and the critically acclaimed An English Ghost Story, which was nominated for the inaugural James Herbert Award, and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include the seminal Nightmare Movies (recently reissued by Bloomsbury in an updated edition), Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies, BFI Classics studies of Cat People and Doctor Who and Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews.
He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines (writing Empire’s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely on a range of topics, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories ‘Week Woman’ and ‘Ubermensch’ have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl. Following his Radio 4 play ‘Cry Babies’, he wrote an episode (‘Phish Phood’) for Radio 7’s series The Man in Black. Most recently he has co-written with Mark Kermode the BBC4 series Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema.
Follow him on twitter @annodracula. His official website can be found at www.johnnyalucard.com
