by Kim Newman
not sure what to make of this book. It was interesting but also comic. Full review to come.
With a lot of books, the premise is enough to sell me on the idea of reading them. Anno Dracula is one of those books. The novel is set in 1888, where Dracula has wed the widowed Queen Victoria, thus legalizing vampirism and making it more or less acceptable. Dr. Alan Seward, however, still harbo...
Blending many stories of the period and fact together this is the story of Charles Beauregard and Genevieve Dieudonne's investigation into the Jack the Ripper Murders. Jack is targeting vampires and this is destabilising things in an England where not only did Van Helsing fail but Dracula became th...
The ceaseless name-checking of fictional vampires and genre characters, plus a tendency to take the novel's concept far too seriously (23% of the new reprint is back matter including annotations, fuh crying out loud) made reading this far more of a chore than it need have been. Had this been a criti...
A very odd, but good, vampire novel that blends real history, literature, and plays the game of 'what if?' Far better than most of the vampire novels being churned out today, and manages to hang onto the idea that vampires and humans really don't mix.
This is my cover:
This was the first book I'd read by Newman, although at my book club meeting I was reminded that I *had* read a long short-story by him, "Coppola's Dracula" - which I distinctly disliked. I had mixed feelings about this book. It's an alternate history of what might have happened when the vampire Dra...
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