Anno Dracula presents readers with a variation on the Jack the Ripper story, where all of the victims are vampire girls, skillfully slaughtered with a silver knife. The fascinating thing about all of the Anno Dracula books is how Kim Newman combines vampire and other lore with historical – both real and fictional – figures from the era. The first book, Anno Dracula, starts in 1888, as a What If to the original Bram Stoker’s Dracula… what if Dracula had won? By 1888, he has married Queen Victoria and vampires live openly in London. Not surprisingly, given the name, the series is about vampires. But the author wrote more books to the series, so they’re back in print, and I found some of them at Powell’s in July. (OK, I’ve made mistakes more than once… I made that particular mistake once.) And then they were out of print, so I couldn’t find them. I made a mistake once, giving away books that I would want to re-read in the future.
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