Book Review – Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha

By Kim Newman I have thoroughly enjoyed Kim Newman’s alternative world vampire stories, with their wonderful blending of history and characters from literature and film, so I was looking forward to sampling the next instalment. Dracula Cha Cha Cha is another delightful addition to his ongoing storyline and it continues…

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From A Library – Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is a wonderful novel blending fiction and history, with characters appropriated from novels and films, into an alternative timeline (in which Dracula wasn't killed but has become consort to Queen Victoria and brought vampires into English society) detective story about a Jack the Ripper killing vampire…

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Book Review: Anno Dracula

By Kim Newman Growing up reading Empire magazine, I was aware of Kim Newman as a film critic and journalist, usually reviewing the genre end of cinema and writing articles about movie monsters or fantasy. He is now a contributing editor, still reviewing, and has his own page of Direct…

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