THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED BRAND-NEW ADDITION TO THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ANNO DRACULA SERIES!Award-winning author Kim Newman takes the series stateside to Andy Warhol’s New York and Orson Welles’ Hollywood.It’s 1976 and vampire reporter Kate Reed is on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula. She helps a young vampire boy, Ion Popescu, who then leaves Transylvania for America. In the States, … America. In the States, Popescu becomes Johnny Pop and attaches himself to Andy Warhol, inventing a new drug which confers vampire powers on its users…
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Anno Dracula is a book that I didn’t initially think I would read for reasons that now escape me. It certainly is the best book I’ve read in 2021 and that’s a pretty big deal since I read Fevre Dream just recently. Given I loved that book, I find that to be high praise indeed. Of the various works I’ve read over the years, I’d have to say …
Kim Newman enlists a cannon of characters from the shelves of popular fiction to craft a highly entertaining alternative history of a 19th century London where Queen Victoria has fallen under the sway of a certain Transylvanian nobleman with an aversion to sunlight. Some of this may seem familiar to fans of Alan Moore’s ‘League of Extraordinary …