Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron takes the story into the 20th century.Ībout the Author: Kim Newman is the critically acclaimed author of the Anno Dracula series. A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Geneviève Dieudonné, newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protegé Edwin Winthrop, and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron. The War of the Great Powers in Europeis also a war between the living and the undead. It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies ofGermany and Austria-Hungary. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction! - RexRobotReviews Christopher Fowler The most interesting take on the Dracula story. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. Paul McAuley Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures.
Ain't It Cool Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre's ongoing revolution. The Independent Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end. Locus A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory. read' - Washington Post Book World The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. 'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying. a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats." - San Francisco Chronicle one of the most creative novels of the year." - Seattle Times
" Anno Dracula will leave you breathless. Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead." - New York Times
Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them. Time Out "Stephen King assumes we hate vampires Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding. Neil Gaiman Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate.
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