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Amid the ebb and swirl, the life and death of Victoria’s new London, fear spreads like a plague to both the turned and the breathing.

Sir Francis Varney is now Viceroy of India.Īnd Jack the Ripper is using a silver knife to murder undead whores in Whitechapel. A bizarre hopping undead haunts Chinatown. Characters from Hammer horror films wander about in upper class society. Lord Ruthven has been made Prime Minister. Henry Jeckyll, the victim Lulu from the silent film “Pandora’s Box.” More, in this world Queen Victoria has married a Transylvanian nobleman, openly known to be a centuries-old vampire. A physician called to examine the body of a murdered prostitute identifies himself as Dr. Rather here we visit a place where Inspector Lestrade works for Scotland Yard and tries to deal with professional criminals like Bill Sikes. The whole thing began with a novella titled “Red Reign” and has as its starting point a simple question:įrom the first we find ourselves not quite in the London of our world and history. It inspired two sequels, “ The Bloody Red Baron” (about the first world war) and “ Judgment of Tears” aka “ Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha” set in post World War II Rome. You see, this novel first came out in 1992 (the same year as Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic take on the world’s most famous vampire). So reads the blurb for “ Anno Dracula” by Kim Newman, a novel just released by Titan Press. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel tells the story of vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.” “It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula.