Anno Dracula (novel)

infobox Book |
name = Anno Dracula
author = Kim Newman
country = United States
language = English
series = "Anno Dracula" series
genre = Alternate History, Horror novel
publisher =
release_date = 1992
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 409 pp (paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-380-72345-X
preceded_by = First book in the series
followed_by = The Bloody Red Baron

"Anno Dracula" is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman. The book is an alternate history novel that contains characters from multiple different sources. It is the first book in the "Anno Dracula" series.

Plot introduction

The story centers on a series of grisly murders taking place in London's Whitechapel district. The victims are all vampire prostitutes who were killed by a man calling himself Silver Knife, after the implement he uses to kill them. Much of the story centers on the efforts of Charles Beauregard (an agent of the Diogenes Club) and Geneviève Dieudonné (a vampire elder) as they attempt to track down the killer.

Setting

The book is an alternate history novel taking place in a world where Count Dracula was not killed by Abraham Van Helsing and has gone on to court and married Queen Victoria, ushering in a new age of vampirism in the world. The country has essentially become a police state where even the slightest infractions can be punished by impalement.

Characters From Other Works of Fiction

These characters come from a variety of different sources. Some, mostly those from public domain works, are listed by name. Some of the others are listed by mere descriptions.

*Adam Adamant - From "Adam Adamant Lives!"
*Baron Meinster (from the film The Brides of Dracula)
*Kurt Barlow - From "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King
*Brides of Dracula - From the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
*Sir Danvers Carew - From "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
*Carnacki - From the works of William Hope Hodgson
*Barnabas Collins - From "Dark Shadows"
*Count Dracula - From the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
*Sergeant Dravot - From "The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling
*Gunga Din - From the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling
*Soames Forsyte - From "The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy
*Doctor Fu Manchu - From the novels by Sax Rohmer (not named, but referred to as "The Celestial")
*Griffin - From "The Invisible Man " by H.G. Wells
*Basil Hallward - From "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
*Mina Harker - From the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
*Mycroft Holmes - From the works of Arthur Conan Doyle
*Sherlock Holmes - From the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*The hopping Chinese vampire elder from "Mr. Vampire"
*Doctor Henry Jekyll - From "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
*Carmilla Karnstein - From "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu
*Kostaki - From "The Pale Lady" by Alexandre Dumas, père
*Inspector Lestrade - From the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Lestat de Lioncourt - From "Interview With the Vampire" by Anne Rice
*Macheath - From "The Threepenny Opera"
*Prince Mamuwalde - From "Blacula"
*Admiral Sir Mandeville Messervy - Presumably an ancestor of Admiral Sir Miles Messervy from the James Bond books
*Sebastian Moran - From the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Doctor Moreau - From "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H. G. Wells
*Professor Moriarty - From the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*The Murgatroyds - From "Ruddigore" by Gilbert and Sullivan
*Orlando - From "" by Virginia Woolf
*Count Orlok - From "Nosferatu"
*Allan Quatermain - From the books by H. Rider Haggard
*Rupert of Hentzau - From "The Prisoner of Zenda" and its sequel by Anthony Hope
*Lord Ruthven - From "The Vampyre" by John Polidori (said to be the same as Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd from "Ruddigore")
*Katie Reed - A character from "Dracula" who was cut from the final novel
*John Reid - From "The Lone Ranger"
*Doctor John Seward - From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
*Bill Sikes - From "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
*Sir Francis Varney - From "Varney the Vampire" by J. M. Rymer
*Count Von Krolock - From "The Fearless Vampire Killers"
*Waverly - Presumably an ancestor of Alexander Waverly from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
*Count Yorga - From the movie of the same name

Historical Persons Appearing in the Book

*Edward Aveling
*Barbara of Celje (here said to be one of the three Brides of Dracula)
*Elizabeth Báthory
*Annie Besant
*Billy the Kid
*Annie Chapman
*Marie Corelli
*Edward VII
*Robert Cunninghame-Graham
*W. S. Gilbert
*Frank Harris
*Henry Hyndman
*Eleanor Marx
*Henry Matthews
*Joseph Merrick
*William Morris
*Mary Ann Nichols
*Beatrix Potter
*George Bernard Shaw
*Emma Elizabeth Smith
*William Thomas Stead
*Bram Stoker
*Florence Stoker
*Martha Tabram
*Alfred Tennyson
*Vlad Tepeş (here said to be the same person as Dracula)
*Queen Victoria
*Charles Warren
*Oscar Wilde