Quotes from Kim Newman

It was as if there were but one woman in the world, laughing at him from behind a dozen masks.

Marvellous apparatuses, like miracle cures, are beset with unpredictable side-effects. In the twentieth century, new means of setting down human thought may precipitate an avalanche of worthless digression.

God, the vampire women! What a pack of foaming she-cats!

defend Miss Haller from the Nazis. In the final chapter, the ghosts saw off the spies and word came through that Miss Haller's father had been smuggled out of Germany. Gillian

Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.

Sporty, terrifying, babies and posh, yes. What are we?' 'Desdemona? Red-headed stepchildren. Who don't fit anywhere else.

In a battle which might interest scholars of modern urban warfare, the Conduit Street Comanche whipped the tar out of an irregular band of crybaby destitutes who pledged allegiance to the Watson's departed mucker-wallah.

It was a wonder a period of history so full of people having their heads chopped off could be made to seem so blindingly dull.