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Anno Dracula by Kim Newman book Ebook Anno Dracula currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Anno Dracula please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Series:::: Anno Dracula+++Paperback:::: 560 pages+++Publisher:::: Titan Books; Reprint edition (May 24, 2011)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 0857680838+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0857680839+++Product Dimensions::::5.3 x 1.4 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 0857680838 ISBN13 978-0857680 Download here >> Description: Kim Newmans Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, its still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious. - Neil GaimanPolitics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newmans prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding. - Time Out“Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them… Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self- obsessed undead.” - New York Times“Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - Seattle Times“Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - San Francisco ChronicleA ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read - Washington Post Book WorldThe most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. Ultimate seems an apt description... Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory. - LocusA marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed. - The IndependentOnce you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end. - Aint It CoolAnno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genres ongoing revolution. - Paul McAuleyKim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldnt be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. Its a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count. - Christopher FowlerThe most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction! - RexRobotReviews--It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel. “Anno Dracula” is set in a world subsequent to the events of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” In the world of “Anno Dracula”, Dracula kills Van Helsing (not the other way round) and becomes more powerful than ever. In fact, the Count has married himself into line to become king. Vampires flourish in the open and their numbers are swelling. But a few of them are being gruesomely murdered. In Newman’s work, the vicious Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper target young, “turned” working women of Whitechapel. The killings attract attention and become politically charged. The book’s plot revolves around the investigation by an unlikely duo, Charles Beauregard (human) and Geneviève Dieudonné (Vampire elder), into the murders.Newman creates a fascinating world that blends not only his own characters (e.g. Beauregard and Dieudonné), but also characters from other popular works set in the 19th century as well as from our own history. Some of these borrowed characters are important to the story, others are mere cameos, and still others are references to the departed or imprisoned. Among the book’s fictional pantheon are those from works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and—of course—Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker lends the critical character of Dr. John Seward to the book, although there are references to most of that book’s major characters. (You’ll miss some connections if you haven’t read “Dracula,” but you’ll still be able to follow the story.) The next biggest contributor of characters is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mycroft Holmes, Inspector Lestrade, and Professor Moriarty are all present in the flesh, though the latter plays a small role, and others—including the great detective, himself—are referenced throughout.Many of the real world characters are literary greats (poets, playwrights, and novelists) including George Bernard Shaw, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde. However, also included are political figures, royalty, and—of course—the victims of Jack the Ripper. This mixing of the literary and historical worlds lures book- lovers further down the rabbit hole.If this book seems like a murder mystery, it’s not. One of the interesting elements of Newman’s approach is that he reveals the killer from the outset. While we know who the killer is from the book’s opening, we don’t know whether or how he will be brought to justice—or what precisely justice means in this case. The book is more about the web of intrigue that surrounds the murders than it is about the murders. Ultimately, the book takes in a much bigger picture than a few murders in the seedy side of London.“Anno Dracula” is intriguing and readable. If one has read “Dracula,” the various Sherlock Holmes stories, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” and other contemporary literature, it’s all the more enjoyable for the way it artfully places these all in the same universe. I’d highly recommend this book for readers of the classic popular fiction. 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