Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron [Paperback]

Kim Newman (Author)

Book Description

Release date: April 10, 2012

Praise for Anno Dracula:

"Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman

"Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out

“Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them… Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.” - New York Times

“Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - Seattle Times

“Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - San Francisco Chronicle

'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read' - Washington Post Book World

"The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. 'Ultimate' seems an apt description... Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory." - Locus 

"A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed." - The Independent 

"Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end." - Ain't It Cool

"Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre's ongoing revolution." - Paul McAuley

"Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count." - Christopher Fowler   

 "The most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction!" - RexRobotReviews 
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WAR IS HELL...

It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies ofGermany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europeis also a war between the living and the undead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protegé Edwin Winthrop,and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron... In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Geneviève Dieudonné,newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club.

A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron takes the story into the 20th century. 

 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Bloody Red Baron hits the mark"  – Fangoria Magazine

"Imagine if Downton Abbey met Dark Shadows as directed by Quentin Tarantino, and you’ll be close to the reading experience." - Fantasy Matters

"One of the most bracing alternate histories of its time, as well as one of the coolest vampire stories." - io9

"A stunning addition to the tightly written, and researched, alternate timeline universe of Anno Dracula, with compelling characters, plenty of intrigue, and not just a little smattering of blood and guts." - Battle Royale With Cheese

"Groundbreaking fantasy." - MTV Geek

"A bit like a demented Boy’s Own adventure tale." - Sci-Fi Movie Hype

"[A] tour-de-force of imagination..." - Vampires.com

"Smart, clever, compulsive... no true horror or vampire enthusiast should overlook." -Ravenous Monster

Praise for Anno Dracula:

"Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman

"Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out

“Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them… Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.” - New York Times

“Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - Seattle Times

“Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - San Francisco Chronicle

'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read' - Washington Post Book World

"The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. 'Ultimate' seems an apt description... Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory." - Locus 

"A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed." - The Independent 

"Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end." - Ain't It Cool

"Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre's ongoing revolution." - Paul McAuley

"Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count." - Christopher Fowler   

 "The most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction!" - RexRobotReviews

About the Author

Kim Newman is the critically acclaimed author of the Anno Dracula series. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books; Reprint edition (April 10, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0857680846
• ISBN-13: 978-0857680846
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.6 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kim Newman is a London-based author and movie critic. With over 25 years of experience, he writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Sight & Sound and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV and has popular lines in horror. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Award.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody Great! April 30, 2012

By Lungbarrow

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Mr. Kim Newman has fast become one of my favorite writers. It started with Anno Dracula which is one of my favorite books. It combines some of my favorite elements in fiction: Victorian fiction, alternate universes, meta-fiction, shades of the Wold Newton Family, Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes references, but most of all good writing, an engaging plot, and interesting characters. I couldn't put it down and eagerly waited for the sequel hoping for it to be as good as the original...
It wasn't-
But it is damn close.
The book actually contains two separate stories, The Bloody Red Baron which takes up the first 2/3rds of the book and a new novella Vampire Romance which finishes out the last third. In the interest of fairness I will review the stories separately.
Bloody Red Baron is a four star book. It suffers a little bit due to the absence of Geneviève but mostly makes up for it with a larger role for Kate Reed who had a smaller part in the previous review. Charles Beauregard also has a reduced role to the books detriment. His replacement character is not as strong but works well enough. The real sticking point is the over reliance on the flying scenes which is understandable considering it is about the Red Baron but they just distracted from the stuff I loved with stuff I just liked. But if you like action scenes in a book this won't be a problem for you.
Vampire Romance is on the other hand a five star story.It heavily features Geneviève at a party to try to find the new King of Vampires. It is both a manor house mystery as well as a wicked burn on the Paranormal Romance genre that has become so popular. This novella is worth the nine buck by itself. One of Newman's best abilities is to combine humor and horror without detracting from either.... This book gets a strong recommend. Read more ›

5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody Red Baron April 14, 2013

By Kyle

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It's a really good read, although I don't think it's as good as the first book. Id recommend it to any history or vampire buff.

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read March 7, 2013

By mike j. justin

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i am a fan of kim newmans first book so i decided to try this, its a good read a bit slower paced than her first book which is why i gave it 4 stars, still if you are a fan and happen to like the history behind the first world war this is hard to beat.

4.0 out of 5 stars Anno Dracula, take 2! Not as good as the first, but still worth a look.... February 4, 2013

By J. Binkerd

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Not quite as good as the first one, but that's to be expected. I also thought Genvieve should actually appear as a character, a change the author himself apparently wishes he had made as noted in his commentary. Here we have the world we left in at the end of Anno Dracula, twenty-odd years later and embroiled in a world war with vampires serving on both sides. New technologies are being tested, from chemical warfare to the newfangled aeroplane. Dracula serves as the Kaiser's right hand, some say ruling from behind the throne. Charles Beauregard is back again to oppose the designs of the chief vampire, joined once more by stubborn war correspondant Kate Reed as well as the Diogenes Club's newest addition, the young operative Edwin Winthrop. Will these intrepid heroes be able to discover Dracula's designs in time to foil them? Or will Dracula and his vampire flyers led by the Bloody Red Baron himself, Baron Richtofen, triumph over the Allies?

5.0 out of 5 stars Newman creates a fantastic sequel in The Bloody Red Baron! November 10, 2012

By John Milton

Format:Paperback

Just under a year ago, I found myself immersed in Anno Dracula, Kim Newman's tale of Jack the Ripper operating in a Victorian England where Dracula has wed the Queen and vampirism is rife. It seems only appropriate that I mark today by reviewing the sequel to Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron.

Anno Dracula was one of the vampire stories that I have read over the last year that have restored my faith in the vampiric sub-genre, after the recent onslaught of sparkly emo vampires that seem to be so prevalent at the moment. As with Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron is very much rooted in historical fact, much to my delight. Newman skillfully takes the already horrific events of The Great War and perverts them with a vampiric taint.

Where Anno Dracula introduced the reader to some of the principal players still present in The Bloody Red Baron, the characters in this sequel include some of the most popular vampires from pop culture; and as with this novel's predecessor, various fiction and horror favourites turn up such as Dr Moreau, Herbert West, Dr Caligari, Biggles are drafted in and added to a cast of figures from history such as Kaiser Wilhelm II, Winston Churchill, Rasputin and even a brief appearance by Adolf Hitler... It would be quite easy for a lesser author to become distracted in an attempt to cram as many names as possible into such a tome; but Newman's use of figures from fact and fiction simply make his work all the more entertaining and add a depth and colour to proceedings with the inclusion of characters that already have a well-established backstory. And of course, this tale includes Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron himself....

Critically, some of Newman's creations, I choose not to reveal what they are, could be considered entirely implausible, even in an alternate universe where man and vampire co-exist. However, the author has developed the backstory of his creations to such a degree that you cannot help but be caught up in the tale that he tells.

Newman maintains the same tone, humour and wit from Anno Dracula and portrays the events of The Great War in a suitably sombre fashion while still telling a tremendous vampire-based yarn. My first passion has always been history and Newman continued to delight me with a work of horror fiction, that is impressively rich in historical fact ... and twists much of it to its own end. Adhering to factual accuracy as much as is possible in an alternate universe populated by vampires is no mean feat but Kim Newman achieves this and in doing so, manages to tell a fantastic story at the same time.

As an added bonus for fans of Newman's work, this edition of The Bloody Red Baron comes with an additional chapter (one of my favourite parts of the story!); and a novella Vampire Romance, which is a bit of a murder mystery, typical of the 1920's era in which it is set, advancing the story of Genevieve Dieudonne from Anno Dracula and once again, is peppered with characters from the genre such as Dorian Gray among others. Read more ›

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it! November 7, 2012

By Ahki

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This series is fun to read. The author blends in so many historical characters it's amazing. Having read the original Dracula years (and years) ago, it's wonderful to see an alternative universe with the characters. Well worth reading the whole series!