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He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

Kim Newman

He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

Tags: moriarty, wasps

Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws...

Kim Newman

Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws...

Tags: moriarty, smile

About Author
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternative history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the BSFA award.

Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile.And I relaxed. I . My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d never got before upon meeting a man. When I’d had it from women, the upshot ranged from d...

Kim Newman

Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile.And I relaxed. I . My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d never got before upon meeting a man. When I’d had it from women, the upshot ranged from d...

Tags: moriarty, sidekick, villains

No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

Kim Newman

No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

Tags: moriarty

Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem...

Kim Newman

Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem...

Tags: impossible, moriarty, occams razor

Only an idiot or or ,’ the Professor said, patiently.

Kim Newman

Only an idiot or or ,’ the Professor said, patiently.

Tags: moriarty

He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.

Kim Newman

He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.

Tags: moriarty

How did your parents come to be lost at sea, Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

Kim Newman

How did your parents come to be lost at sea, Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

Tags: lost at sea, moriarty

Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impress...

Kim Newman

Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impress...

Tags: lunacy, mad, moran

This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'.For why not, Uncle Basher?Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the rig...

Kim Newman

This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'.For why not, Uncle Basher?Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the rig...

Tags: humor, killing, moran

Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slos...

Kim Newman

Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slos...

Love is always a species of insanity. If

Kim Newman

Love is always a species of insanity. If

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few.

Kim Newman

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few.

Quite a few vampires, especially the elders, regarded those who creep through graveyard shadows in batwing capes and fingerless black gloves as an Edinburgh gentleman might look upon a Yankee with a s...

Kim Newman

Quite a few vampires, especially the elders, regarded those who creep through graveyard shadows in batwing capes and fingerless black gloves as an Edinburgh gentleman might look upon a Yankee with a s...

Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding mid...

Kim Newman

Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding mid...

Tags: viper

There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent...

Kim Newman

There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent...

Tags: horror, vampires

Impaler,’ she declared, ‘I have no equal.

Kim Newman

Impaler,’ she declared, ‘I have no equal.

We need to stop the little girl, said Richard pass me that shotgun.

Kim Newman

We need to stop the little girl, said Richard pass me that shotgun.

Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.

Kim Newman

Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.