Kim Newman
1959. július 31. –
| Katalógusnév | Newman, Kim |
|---|---|
| Nem | férfi |
| Honlap | London |
| @annodracula |
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Népszerű idézetek
The vampire spy stood on the balcony and lit a cigarette with a Ronson lighter, flame reddening his forceful face. He exhaled smoke and looked down on Beauregard. His quizzical smile exposed a prominent fang.
‘The name’s Bond,’ he said, with a slight Scots roll. ‘Hamish Bond.’
Chapter 2: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
She had read an article by Arthur C. Clarke in Time magazine that suggested vampires like her, elderly enough to be stable, would be ideal for long-haul space flights, more resilient than the norm, long-lived enough to undertake voyages that might last human generations.
Chapter 17: Geneviéve in Mourning
She was writing more for New Worlds than The Grauniad. Michael Moorcock, the editor, encouraged her to chronicle the New Terror. He reminded her of Frank Harris, her father-in-darkness, but was a much better writer. Mike coaxed something half-decent out of her. Along with the porny purple passages of Horatio Stubbs’s serial Harelipped in the Bed, her supposedly inflammatory piece lost NW its Arts Council grant. She was still waiting to be paid.
Anno Dracula 1968: Aquarius
They’ve called him the Napoleon of Crime, but that’s just putting what he is, what he does, in a cage. He’s not a criminal, he is crime itself, sin raised to an art form, a church with no religion but rapine, a God of Evil. Pardon my purple prose, but there it is. Moriarty brings things out in people, things from their depths.
Chapter One: A Volume In Vermilion