Night Visions 11

Night Visions #11

by Kim Newman, Lucius Shepard, Tim Lebbon

For nearly two decades, the Night Visions anthologies have provided a forum for some of the finest dark fantasists of the modern era, including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Dan Simmons, and many, many more. In 2003, Subterranean Press will proudly publish the eleventh installment of this landmark series.Edited and introduced by World Fantasy Award winner Bill Sheehan, Night Visions 11 will feature novellas by Tim Lebbon (Face, As the Sun Goes Down), Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, The Quorum), and Lucius Shepard (The Jaguar Hunter, Life During Wartime). Together, these three gifted -- and very different -- writers have won almost every major award the fields of horror, fantasy, and science fiction have to offer, and their combined presence is a virtual guarantee of quality. Night Visions 11 is sure to be one of the most memorable, entertaining, and talked about anthologies of the coming year. Don't let it pass you by.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Anthologies

244 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2004

About the author

Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.
An expert on horror and sci-fi cinema (his books of film criticism include Nightmare Movies and Millennium Movies), Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. He is complexly and irreverently referential; the Dracula sequence--Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha--not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith.
In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. His pseudonymous novels, as Jack Yeovil, play elegant games with genre cliche--perhaps the best of these is the sword-and-sorcery novel Drachenfels which takes the prescribed formulae of the games company to whose bible it was written and make them over entirely into a Kim Newman novel.
Life's Lottery, his most mainstream novel, consists of multiple choice fragments which enable readers to choose the hero's fate and take him into horror, crime and sf storylines or into mundane reality.