ANNO DRACULA: THE BLOODY RED BARON

Newman, Kim [Bram Stoker, associational]

ISBN 10: 0857680846 / ISBN 13: 9780857680846

Edité par Titan, London, 2012

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First Edition. Fine, huge trade wraps (new). Laid in: review matter. An "alternate history" fantasy epic, in which Professor Van Helsing failed to kill Dracula, resulting in a worldwide vampire renaissance. Newman has amazing skill at combining humor and horror and awesome action sequences. This fat volume is second in the Anno Dracula series, this one's actually two novels in one, "The Bloody Red Baron" set in World War I featuring undead flyers, and "Vampire Romance" which gives a thorough trouncing to the theme of the vampire lover. The series incorporates characters from history and classic fantastic fiction of the past, and this volume introduces us to such characters as the vampire Edgar Allan Poe, Doctor Mabuse a pulp villain created by Norbert Jacques and adapted to early cinema by Fritz Lang, Doctor Caligari from the silent film classic "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," Rotwang from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," Professor Jakob Ten Brincken from H. H. Ewers decadent horror novel "Alraun" (1911), Erich von Stralhein, Ginger Hebblethwaite, and James Bigglesworth from W. E. John's "Biggles" series, Count Orlock from "Nosferatu" (1922), Paul Baumer from "All Quiet on the Western Front," Red Albright from the Captain Midnight radio show, Kent Allard from Walter B. Gibson's "The Shadow," Jedediah Leland from "Citizen Kane," Jake Barnes from Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," Lady Buckingham from "Doctor Who," Mycroft Holmes the brother of Sherlock, Dr. Moreau, Simon Templar, Dr. Thorndyke, the French pulp villain Fantomas, Herbert West from the H.P. Lovecraft story and film, Lord Peter Wimsey, Bulldog Drummond from tales by H. C. McNeile and vintage films, Sergeant Dravot from Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King," and a whole great many others. Also expect to encounter Franz Kafka, Bela Lugosi, Winston Churchill, H. H. Ewers, Mata Hari, J. R. R. Tolkein, H. G. Wells, Rasputin, and many such historical figures.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: ANNO DRACULA: THE BLOODY RED BARON
• Éditeur: Titan, London
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0857680846
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780857680846
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Fine

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Synopsis

A brand-new edition, with an additional novella, of the critically-acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. It is 1918 and Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The war of the great powers in Europe is also a war between the living and the dead. As ever the Diogenes Club is at the heart of British Intelligence and Charles Beauregard and his protegé Edwin Winthrop go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron... Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron takes the story forward into the twentieth century.

À propos de l?auteur

Kim Newman is a well known and respected author and movie critic. 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. He writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV.