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Kim Newman

English novelist, film critic and journalist on horror and science fiction; contributing editor to Empire and Sight and Sound; author of the Anno Dracula series and Nightmare Movies.

4 books on the record · 31 Oct 2009 – 31 Oct 2009

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Dracula by Bram Stoker

But the thing about Dracula is that it’s a good old-fashioned blood and guts melodrama designed to be frightening.

on fivebooks.com · 31 Oct 2009 · Report

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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

I Am Legend is a book from the 1950s which is probably well known now because it was made into a film last year.

on fivebooks.com · 31 Oct 2009 · Report

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Misery by Stephen King

Misery is probably not the most obvious choice for one of King’s books.

on fivebooks.com · 31 Oct 2009 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.