Anno Dracula - Softcover

"Anno Dracula was critically acclaimed and US paperback bestseller when first released in the 1990s. "Politics, horror and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realised novel." (Time Out)"

Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in  the Anno Dracula series. It is an alternate history using 19th century  English historical settings and personalities, along with characters  from popular fiction. The interplay between humans who have chosen to  turn" into vampires and those who are "warm" (humans) is the backdrop  for the plot which tracks Jack the Ripper''s politically charged  destruction of vampire prostitutes. The reader is alternately and  sympathetically introduced to various points of view. The main  characters are Jack the Ripper, and his hunters Charles Beauregard (an  agent of the Diogenes Club), and Geneviève Dieudonné, a senior  vampire. From the book cover: "The most comprehensive, brilliant,  dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date." (Locus) "A tour de fource  which succeeds brilliantly." (The Times) "A marvellous marriage of  political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative  history." (The Independent)."