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Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard Hardcover – September 17, 2013

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DRACULA COMES TO NEW YORK: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with theVampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century - this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series.

Newman’s dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker’s Dr. John Seward and enslaved Victorian England?

Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments, Dracula seems long gone. A relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard descends upon America, stalking the streets of New York and Hollywood, haunting the lives of the rich and famous, from Sid and Nancy to Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of 1980s America, it seems the past might not be dead after all.

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The transformation in 1944 of a boy into a vampire launches the zany latest entry in Newman's Anno Dracula series of vampire stories, set in an alternate world where Dracula ruled England before dying in 1959. The boy, who goes first by John Popp and later by Johnny Alucard, heads for the bright lights of New York, where he's immersed in Manhattan celebrity culture, and Hollywood, where he's immersed in greed; Newman gleefully and capably skewers the inanities of life in both cities in the 1990s. As America embraces the cutting-edge vampire phenomenon, Alucard's intentions turn sinister and he contemplates revenge against vampire opponents. The exuberance of Newman's satire is overwhelming at times, but takeoffs such as a benefit concert for the Transylvania Movement (featuring the Free Transylvania anthem—John Lennon's ÇÿImagine,' the greatest song ever written by a vampire ) are undeniably funny. As vampire characters from previous books resist Alucard's domination, cash disbursements ensure his success in human society. The conclusion hints at further tales to come. Agent: James Lockhart, Antony Harwood Literary Agency. (Sept.)

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"Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard is a rollicking ride through the pop culture of 1976-1991, as Kim Newman cleverly twists and turns the events of those fifteen years to fit his vampiric narrative." - Criminal Element

"I highly suggest picking up this book. 9/10" - Horror News Network

"A dream come true for long-time fans of the Anno Dracula series" - Open Letters Monthly

"This is yet another must read book from an accomplished author, don’t let it pass you by." - Pop Cults

"Recommended for literate horror fans who wants something cleverer than the latest True Blood or Twilight book. Great fun and definitely recommended." - SciFi Movie Page

"I entered a world which totally engulfed me." - Horror-Movies.ca

"A rollicking ride through the pop culture of 1976-1991, as Kim Newman cleverly twists and turns the events of those fifteen years to fit his vampiric narrative." - Criminal Element

"This book will delight fans of the series and bring in new fans as well, it’s a fun and easy read put together beautifully by Titan Books." - City of Films

"The sheer imagination, dark humor and masterful use of vampire lore makes Johnny Alucard another triumph for Newman and should make the book top-of-shelf for vampire lovers everywhere." - The Vampire Source Review

"An interesting and relevant vampire story. Newman’s nuanced portrayal of vampires is incredibly refreshing." - Paper Droids

"Both gripping and horrific… and also slightly hilarious." - Comic Book Resources

"Newman has crafted a remarkably entertaining story and found a way to breathe new life in the tired old vampire tropes. I particularly love the final scene, which I found to be rather beautiful and a perfect way to end this story. This book is one I highly recommend looking up, whether or not you're a fan of Nosferatu." - Horror Talk

"This book was addicting, fun, intelligent, and exciting." - Nerd Span

" Tough and tender, funny and frightening, intellectual and poppy, Johnny Alucard is one vampire book that’s likely to put many others in its black and red-cloaked shade." - Adventures in SciFi Publishing

"I would recommend Johnny Alucard for both it’s historical and entertainment value" - Atomic Moo

"Newman is having a blast." - Den of Geek

"stands above the rest of most of the vampire literature out on the shelves right now and for recent years." - Aint It Cool

"The sheer quality of Kim Newman’s writing remains unchanged" - One Metal

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books; Reprint edition (September 17, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0857680862
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0857680860
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches

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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.

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Newman Does It Again - IMHO, This Is the Book of the Year

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2013

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This is the fourth novel in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series, and although I feel like I've been waiting forever, I'm glad to say it's worth the wait. Fair warning - readers who didn't like the third book, Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha , probably won't like this one, but I think it's the book of the year. It's smart, engaging, melancholy, deeply layered, and just generally awesome.

The first book in the series, Anno Dracula , started with two cool ideas. Set in 1888, it introduced the premise that Dracula survived the attempt on his life at the end of Stoker's novel, moved to England, and revealed the existence of vampires to the world. Second, it assumed that all of the horror novels set in that age, like Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or the various other classic vampire novels, all were happening simultaneously.

Using those ideas and some common characters, the next novels were set in the mileu of World War I flying ace fiction, 1950s movies set in Italy, and now this one, set in 1970s - 1990s Americana, mostly movies and TV, with some real life characters and events thrown in. As I said, I loved it.

This novel is a collection of linked short stories that follow the title character, Johnny Alucard, as he attempts to restore the (now dead) Dracula to the world, while crossing paths with series regulars Kate Reed, Penelope Churchward, and Geneviève Dieudonné. Johnny Alucard combines all of Newman's best traits. It's densely layered with references to other works, to the point where it's worthwhile to have a Google window open to figure out where each new character comes from. It's exciting, with some straightforward vampire politics, fights, and drama. And it's emotionally gripping, as it continues to follow the main characters through the years, as well as featuring some appearances from old favorites like the vampire wetworks specialist "Hamish Bond."

As always, Newman's writing is first rate, and I ended up highlighting dozens of passages just because they were so well written or cool. On the other hand, like the last book, I think some people might be disappointed with the ending, which is more ambiguous than final. I enjoyed it though - it plays with Newman's core question of just what the idea of Dracula means to us and to the characters. Even more, it's just so fun to see vampires eating Sid and Nancy, or being questioned by Columbo, that I savored these stories.

Speaking of Columbo, Newman gets him pitch perfect, which is awesome. Unfortunately, IMHO, he goes for a critical parody of a certain teenaged vampire slayer and her oh so British "Overlooker." That made me a bit sad, especially because in a rare failure, Newman doesn't really duplicate or successfully parody Whedon's distinctive dialogue style. But that's easily forgiven because, as I've said, the rest of this is IMHO the book of the year, at least. Strongly recommended.

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Great stuff, but the constant references need to be toned down

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014

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In the 4th book of Kim Newman's vampire-heavy alternate history a young vampire, the 'get' of Count Dracula himself, travels to 70s New York and, over time establishes himself as a New York drug lord, a Hollywood mogul and finally the new king of the vampires.

My bare bones summary does not even begin to describe the rich satire and cultural references that fill every page of the book. The first quarter tells the fictional story of Francis Ford Copola filming a Dracula biography in Transylvania, a story that is basically a retelling of the trials and tribulations he faced in making Apocalypse Now in the Philippines, but with vampires. The next section has Johnny Alucad establishing himself as the drug lord of New York selling the vampire blood concocation known as 'Drac'. It's Scarface, but with vampires. Other sections reference Top Gun, the end of the Cold War, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other historical and fictional events. It's fun, there are some real laugh out loud moments and even the most dedicated pop culture fan is sure to miss some references.

But after a while it gets to be too much. At one point Alucard is faced with a team of vampire hunters including Robert De Niro's character from Taxi Driver, Gene Hackman from the French Connection and (why not) Shaggy from Scooby Doo. It's a cute scene, but would be so much better if we'd actually seen these characters before and if they had any point other than to be an obvious reference.

As I read I got tired of going to Wikipedia to see what a company's name or a ship is really a reference too.

Newman is a delightful writer and I'm always happy to have something new come out, but he needs to reign in some of his desire for in-jokes when they start to hurt my enjoyment of the story.

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Everything, everyone, and a briefcase from Maple White Land

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014

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Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" series is probably being avoided or ignored by the masses who have given up on literary vampires after watching the undead morph into broody angst-ridden teenagers, or worse, iconic prototypes for softcore Mom porn. This is a shame. Newman's now four book series is something special, an epic covering the years since Dracula succeeded in taking over the world instead of being destroyed.

What really makes this strong story so appealing is Newman's obvious love for pop culture. All the "Anno" series are riddled with celebrities, both real and imagined. Every notable vampire, both literary and cinematic, has popped up on the pages of the books to perform various tasks and move the storyline along. With this fourth installment, the vampires share the pages with celebrities both real and imagined, human, animal, and even plants. The author's wisecracking prose deftly shuffles all the players into line, often making the reader stop to shake his/her head at the sheer volume of notable individuals identified. Travis Bickle is here. Columbo is here. The moon-flower from "Werewolf of London" shares a scene with a triffid and Audrey Jr. from "Little Shop of Horrors". James Bond makes a return, as does the Lone Ranger. Dozens of other laugh-out-loud notable cameos are effortlessly inserted, capped off by the revealing factoid that John Lennon was a vampire. Somehow, Newman makes all this work beautifully, dropping names right and left. It's a gift to the readers. "Anno Alucard" is a better, faster-moving novel than the second and third books, although all four have been great reading in their own right.

Still, this reader was amazed by the appearance of Alucard's briefcase, being described as "made of velociraptor skin, from Maple White Land". To those in the know, the ficticious Maple White was the discoverer of A.Conan Doyle's "The Lost World". Pretty delicious stuff here, folks. Recommended.

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Rowena Hoseason

Solid contribution to a stand-out series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2013

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The Anno Dracula series is an astonishing accomplishment; part alternate history, part homage to 150 years of popular culture, part flesh-ripping yarn and one of the best vampire series there is.
But don't look here for doe-eyed, floppy-fringed romantic young lurve or a cross-species shagathon populated with increasingly odd inhabitants of the supernatural spectrum. The AD series is something altogether more sophisticated and subtle, although it certainly has its gloriously gory gothic moments.

Johnny Alucard isn't perhaps quite as successful as the two episodes which precede it - but then, it would be hard to beat Anno Dracula - Dracula Cha Cha Cha which works brilliantly on all levels. Alucard isn't so much one novel as a series of connected instalments which revolve around an unabashed love affair with Hollywood and the great filmmakers of the American industry. So at times the up-and-eat-them narrative gets a little drenched by all the bloody tributes to pulp fiction and the cinema of the 20th century.
Underneath all the dazzlingly clever references - you'd have to be asleep to miss the Apocalypse Now episode, or the appearance of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but you could be forgiven for not noticing Thunderbird 5 in orbit - lies a deceptively simple plot. In this fictional history, Dracula married Queen Victoria, fought on the German side in WW1, and was finally despatched in fine style in the 1950s. Since then, every other vampire of any stature has been squabbling to claim his crown. And now a young man arrives in America and sets about becoming Dracula...
Indirectly opposing or aiding him are the series' female vamps; Kate the Irish journo, Genevieve the French elder whose heart still beats, and bad Penny. The Dracula AD series is as much about them as it is about the lead character - although this book is unusual in the Johnny A spends far more time in the limelight than Dracula has in previous stories.
Kim Newman is a dab hand at telling this ripping yarn, although the plot occasionally gets bogged down by the lengthy lists of famous names which clang weightily around the Flemingesque set pieces. If you invest in the whole series then Johnny Alucard is definitely worth your time, and the finale left me wondering just where it might go next. The loss of Charles Beauregard and the fading of the Diogenes Club has definitely left it lacking something central at its core. Who know what'll happen when we hit AD 2000?

If you haven't read any of the other books in this series then don't start here; you'll miss out most of the standing jokes and Lord knows there are so many references and witty asides that are worth enjoying. Keep your eyes peeled for QT working in a video rental store: priceless.
8/10

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LG

Good ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2015

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I really like KN's style, both fiction and non fiction. After a great start this series has been pretty inconsistent. This volume isn't up there with the best (the first), but a good ending to the series.

BDW Ashley

70s/80s Pop culture and Vampires collide

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2013

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Stunning book featuring the apparent resurrection of the late Dracula (killed in Italy in the 1950s - See Dracula Cha Cha Cha) and featuring such characters as Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Andy Warhol, Marlon Brando, a serial-killing couple who any Tarantino fan might recognise, a Vampire-slaying cheerleader, as well as the trio of awesome female characters from the previous books. A MUST READ!!!

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Richard Wright

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2014

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Okay. Right. Deep breath.

That was disappointing. I haven't been disappointed by an Anno Dracula book before. Damn. The novel follows the new character of Johnny Alucard, a son of Dracula who becomes a vast force in the modern world. It's an episodic affair, and several of those episodes are previously published novellas linked by a new framing narrative. No problem with that, except that it makes the book ridiculously bitty - more a collection than a novel. There's plenty of cultural cross-referencing, from Francis Ford Coppola, Andy Warhol, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Colombo, Blade, Orson Welles, and much, much more), but it often feels distracting rather than purposeful. It could all have worked it it went somewhere, but the ending is a complete anti-climax. It's all very well to set up the next novel, but here the author doesn't trouble to properly finish the current one. It's all one long tease, with no resolution. The parts are often good in this book, but the sum is awful.

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Delightful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2017

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Sheer unadulterated delight. I binge read the lot, which saved some frustration on my part, because I just couldn't get enough. It's a delicious blend of fact and fiction. People spotting is incredible fun, no matter which of the books you read.

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