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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 -- 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.
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6 primary books11 released booksAnno Dracula is a 11-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Kim Newman.
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Dertig jaar na Anno Dracula! Dracula zelf is uit Engeland weggejaagd en heeft postgevat aan de zijde van de Kaiser.
Zoals Anno Dracula een ode was aan de grote Victoriaanse vampierenverhalen, is dit een mengeling van vampieren en Eerste Wereldoorlog en andere ficrie begin 20ste eeuw: Docteur Mabuse, Dr. Caligari, Doctor Moreau, Jay Gatsby, Graf Orlok, Rotwang (van Metropolis), Robur (le conquérant), Biggles, Herwert West (re-animator!), Simon Templar – en echte personen: Poe, Kafka, Mata Hari, Fokker, Hindenburg, Göring, Ludendorf, Churchill (en ontelbare, ontelbare anderen).
Het verhaal is redelijk straightforward: de Duitsers doen vreemde experimenten met vampieren, onder meer Manfred von Richthofen, en de geallieerden proberen eerst te achterhalen wat er precies gebeurt, en dan er iets aan te doen. Poe, gedesillusioneerd in de VS en verhuisd naar Praag, wordt onder de arm genomen door de Duitsers om een biografie/heldenverhaal van de Rode Baron te maken. Kate Reed, vampier en journaliste, trekt op onderzoek.
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De atmosfeer en de wereld en de details zijn belangrijker dan het verhaal, vrees ik. En het einde valt een beetje plat. Maar het blijft wel de moeite, en op naar nummer drie.