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Kim Newman

Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes Anno Dracula and Life's Lottery; his non-fiction includes Nightmare Movies and Horror: 100 Best Books.

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  Edgar Wright edits Observer New Review

  London’s Soho on screen – from Peeping Tom to Mona Lisa

  It’s one of the capital’s most storied districts. Here Kim Newman leads a tour round 15 memorable movie locations in Soho and surrounds

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  Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock

  What’s makes a superhero film into a hit? Why are heist movies like musicals? And what really makes a horror film terrifying?

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  Exposing children to horror films isn’t the nightmare you think it is

  Kim Newman

  Scary films stoke children’s imaginations and build resilience, says novelist and critic Kim Newman

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  Houses of horror: a rambling, teetering, crumbling brief history of gothic cinema

  Marked by doomy shadows and decayed mansions, the gothic style was a natural fit for horrors and has since come to influence almost every genre in film

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  Books blog

  Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic spirit lives on

  Kim Newman:A timely Google doodle reminds us that, two centuries after his birth, the writer's sophisticated variations on vampire and ghost stories retain their eerie power

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  Jesús Franco obituary

  Prolific Spanish film-maker who specialised in psychedelic gothic horror – often laced with sex and violence

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  Robert Fuest obituary

  Director who blended sophistication and sickness in the horror film The Abominable Dr Phibes

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  Syd Cain obituary

  Production designer behind the deadly gadgets used by James Bond – and his foes

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  Richard Gordon obituary

  Canny film producer known for his horror and sci-fi classics

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  Jimmy Sangster obituary

  Screenwriter behind Hammer films such as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein

• The coldest warriors

  Review: The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
  Kim Newman devours a satirical tale of post-Soviet vampires and potentially messianic toddlers

• Film blog

  Second opinion: The Happening

  In the first of a new series, horror scholar Kim Newman leaps to the defence of M Night Shyamalan's critically-mauled chiller

• Pat Morita

  Obituary:Asian-American actor pioneering film and television roles.

• Gregg Hoffman

  Obituary:Film producer with a vision of horror for thinking people.

• Clash of the titans

  Did Superman outbox Ali? Did Sherlock Holmes beat Dracula? As horror legends Freddy and Jason meet in celluloid, Kim Newman explores what happens when icons collide.