This one is hard to rate because it is, itself, composed of 7 parts, and each part focused on a different time period and different people grappling with the same item - the Jewel of the Seven Stars. My main complaint is that, in the cause of keeping us in the dark, it was sometimes hard to follow what was going on. A fascinating and terrifying concept, really. A madcap race around the city sort of thing, with the interesting concept of Shadow London - the place where all the stories of London go and are real. It was interesting to see Charles so uncertain as he often was in this story.Īlso has the ever popular Genevieve Dieudonne, Edwin Winthrop and Catriona Kaye - the three of which seem to be the most prolific in this set of stories.Ī story in which a Great Sorcerer is threatening the Kingdom, and it's unclear who's helping him and who's hindering him. This story was headed up by an older Charles Beauregard in the Chair, seemingly shortly after the death of Mycroft Holmes. Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch - 3.5 stars This is her origin story, I suppose you could say, where she first learned to harness and control her powers. I liked Amy Thomsett, the protagonist, and the other girls in the story, and was disappointed to not see Amy in any of the other stories - though she is mentioned in passing in another story as being a sometime member of the club. It's also, seemingly, the least directly involved with the Club itself. My favorite of the lot, perhaps because it's the most character based of the stories. Kentish Glory: The Secrets of Drearclif Grange School - 4 stars I'll list them in the order of preference, not appearance: This is a collection of 5 short stories/novellas - more stories about the elusive Diogenes Club. 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. 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. In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. 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. Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.Īn 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.
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