Anno Dracula (novel)

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!
• 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 Orlando: A Biography 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 Tepes (here said to be the same person as Dracula)
• Queen Victoria
• Charles Warren
• Oscar Wilde

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