Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman
**Praise for *****Anno Dracula*****:**
"Kim Newman's 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, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - **Neil Gaiman**
"Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman's 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
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*“*Anno Dracula* will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - ***Seattle Times
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“Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - ***San Francisco Chronicle
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'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read' - ***Washington Post Book World***
"The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. 'Ultimate' seems an apt description... *Anno Dracul*a is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory." - ***Locus***** **
"A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed." - ***The Independent ***
"Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end." - ***Ain't It Cool***
"Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre's ongoing revolution." - **Paul McAuley**
"Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count." - **Christopher Fowler**
## "The most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction!" - ***RexRobotReviews***
WAR IS HELL...
It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies ofGermany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europeis also a war between the living and the undead. 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... 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.
A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, *The Bloody Red Baron* takes the story into the 20th century.

A cracking adventure, only slowing at times. I actually preferred the novella in the last section of the book, a tribute to wodehouse's jeeves and a mush mash of detective novels. Lots of fun in the last part. ( )

SPOILER ALERT. An interesting sequel to Anno Dracula, if not the fulfilling meal that you might have liked. This consists of two novels, one set in the Battlefields & skies of the Western Front in World War One & the other a novella set in an English country house in the 1920's. There are moments of brilliance, with lots of in jokes, & amusing asides, but the central plotting seems to let Newman down. It feels very cinematic @ times, which might be what you're looking for, & indeed, there is a film script to this effect @ the end of the book. The interaction between various protagonists @ times seems forced & Newman spends a lot of time in an appendix trying to explain this. Don't get me wrong, I DID like this, I just found it wasn't quite the follow up that I expected from the seminal Anno Dracula. The 1920's tale can easily be missed & really only for Newman purists. (Is there such a thing?). I will look forward to the next instalment with interest If not the enthusiasm I did this. ( )