Anno Dracula 1918: The Bloody Red Baron

By Kim Newman

Book Overview

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

"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 Chronicle

'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 Dracula 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
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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 proteg? 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, Genevi?ve Dieudonn?, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857680846
• ISBN13: 9780857680846
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

"It'll be over by Christmas."

Not bloody likely. Not when Dracula is helping the Kaiser and the German war machine during the Great War. We meet some old characters, like Kate Reed, Charles Beauregard, Dr. Moreau and, of course, Dracula. We also meet a few new characters, from reality and fiction, like the Red Baron himself, Edwin Winthrop (a new intelligence officer), Goring - who seems to pop up in a lot of 20th century fiction - go figure, Herbert West of Miskatonic, Mata Hari, Edgar Poe (who dropped his middle name), a Hungarian actor we all know and love, the elder Orlok and even the name of Langstrom of Gotham University is dropped at one point. He is from DC Comics. Plus hundreds of real or fictional soldiers, spies and fliers. As gripping and detailed as the first book, but it felt better made - I plowed through it with great speed. The story was tight, never slowed down, always on track. PERFECT. I look forward to buying the next book.

Unusual take on WWI

An excellent sequel to _Anno Dracula_: thirty years after the events of the original, vampires are fighting in the skies of Europe. Meanwhile a vampiric Edgar Poe is trying to write a biography of Manfred von Richthofen, and soldiers are dying in the mud and barbed wire of no-man's-land. This book has most of the same strengths and weaknesses as its predecessor (which isn't to say that Kim Newman has fallen into a rut - he hasn't - but you'll probably like this book as much or as little as you did the first one.) Newman mixes his own characters adroitly with real people - some far more unpleasant than Newman's vampires - and characters borrowed from other authors. I was disappointed not to see Genevieve Dieudonne return for this book, but any author willing to turn Biggles, Algy, Ginger and Bertie into vampires earns points for style. (Newman also makes them more like three-dimensional characters than they ever were under their original creator.)As with _Anno Dracula_, the ending comes too soon and too suddenly; Newman throws in a major catastrophe which makes many of the book's struggles and characters irrelevant, and then fails to follow up on that catastrophe. But even with that failing, this is one of the best vampire books out there (and certainly one of the most unusual.)

An Excellant combo of Alternative History and Vampires

Vampire books are a dime a dozen, but Newman's work stands out in the field. He has a flair for writing, and a unique style that makes his books refreshing and different.

the best vampire writer since stoker

kim newman has created the finest vampire books since dracula.his respect to the traditions of vampire-building is examplary.his premise is fantastic,and in all,he creates a wonderfull tribute to the horror-adventure-science fiction writers of classic reputation.but sadly,modern readers don`t understand the inner neuances that make this novel great.BRAVO KIM NEWMAN!

An excellant sqqual

I read the Bloody Red Baron First, and then ordered ANNO DRACULA, and found that both were excellent books, the sequal did stand alone, as well as the original. The Bloody Red Baron expounds upon certain characters, and you are immersed from the first paragraph, it is an awsome read, I highly recommend it.