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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read any fiction by Kim Newman before, though I've always enjoyed his film reviews for Empire magazine. I'm pretty sure I haven't read Dracula either, though I've seen plenty of film versions of it.<br/><br/>The twin premise here is that Dracula was not defeated at the end of Bram Stoker'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31305297">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a book I found at a used book store. The description on the back read basically that van helsing failed to kill Dracula and he'd become the consort of Queen Victoria. Oh and Jack the Ripper is involved.<br/><br/>Any story that involves Jack the Ripper AND vampires, I am so there. This was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6894321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[1888 London, and Dracula is hanging out with Queen Victoria, while in Whitechapel, prostitutes are dying strange bloody deaths...<br/><br/>It's obvious that the author had a lot of fun writing this, and I had just as much reading it. Historical fact mixed with Newman's particular sense of whimsy a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18099762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[As Nina Auerbach writes in the <em>New York Times</em>, &quot;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 ... <em>Anno Dracula</em> is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.&quot; In this first of what looks to be an excellent series, Victorian England has vampires at every level of society, especially the higher ones, and they engage in incessant intrigue, power games, and casual oppression of the weak—activities, as we know, that are all too human. Numerous characters from literature and from history appear in both major and cameo roles. Spectacular fight scenes, stormy politics, and a serial vampire killer keep the action lively. A scholarly bibliography is included.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened upon this book at a book sale and got it really cheap.  I really loved how the author mixed historical facts into the fiction.  This book had all of my favorite things: Victorian London, Jack the Ripper, Count Dracula, sex, intrigue and action!  What a great roller coaster ride for the im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4270301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[As Nina Auerbach writes in the <em>New York Times</em>, &quot; 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 . . . . <em>Anno Dracula</em> is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.&quot; In this first of what looks to be an excellent series, Victorian England has vampires at every level of society, especially the higher ones, and they engage in incessant intrigue, power games, and casual oppression of the weak--activities, as we know, that are all too human. Numerous characters from literature and from history appear in both major and cameo roles. Spectacular fight scenes, stormy politics, and a serial vampire killer keep the action lively. A scholarly bibliography is included.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1885, Count Dracula came to London to spread vampirism into the heart of Victorian England. But in this retelling of (literary) history, Van Helsing did not defeat Dracula; rather, Dracula succeeded, marrying Queen Victoria and becoming Prince Consort. Now, in 1888, vampires fill positions of pow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33394112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[As Nina Auerbach writes in the <em>New York Times</em>, &quot; 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 . . . . <em>Anno Dracula</em> is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.&quot; In this first of what looks to be an excellent series, Victorian England has vampires at every level of society, especially the higher ones, and they engage in incessant intrigue, power games, and casual oppression of the weak--activities, as we know, that are all too human. Numerous characters from literature and from history appear in both major and cameo roles. Spectacular fight scenes, stormy politics, and a serial vampire killer keep the action lively. A scholarly bibliography is included.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across this a while ago when looking into alternative history as a genre ... I think it was on a list of overlooked sci-fi novels alongside some Michael Moorcock and mysterious sounding titles like &quot;Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz&quot; (which I later found described as Lautreamont an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29840501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book. Kim Newman is a respected film critic here in the UK, and I've been enjoying his books and his reviews in EMPIRE magazine for many years. He also writes great stories, either of the short variety (usually collected in Stephen Jones anthologies) or of the novel kind. This is one of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58967700">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected another little piece of fluff to feed my vampire lust, but what I got was much more. A revision of the ending of Stoker's _Dracula_, but more so, an alternate history Victoriana where vampires have gained high soceity when Vlad Tepes becomes Queen Victoria' Prince Consort. As well done an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39761804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was moderately entertaining and occasionally clever, but nowhere near as good as reviews had led me to believe.  It's been plugged as a very rich blend of history, fiction, and vampire lore.  What it is is a mediocre alternate ending to Bram Stoker's DRACULA peppered with a mass of histori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48980996">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Without a doubt, I found this book enjoyable and quirky.  I adore literary in-jokes, and ANNO DRACULA has them in spades.  Long before THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, this series created a thrilling horror/alt.history tale just packed with contemporaneous literary characters.  The plot itself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26134735">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Trash/pulp concept (Jack the Ripper vs. Dracula!) brought to levels of near genius. A nightmare retelling of the Victorian era with everything you would want from a novel; romance, intrigue, plots and counterplots, political skullduggery, social critique, great characters, and an encyclopedia of lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45543576">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this. Like most of Newman's work this is a pastiche and it's fun playing &quot;spot the character&quot; within the story. In this world, Dr. Van Helsing and his companions failed to stop Dracula on his arrival in England and he has now taken over the country. Cue every vampire from Victorian l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42777431">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, fast-paced read. I should've read it with an encyclopedia in hand, because almost every character was a personage of the Victorian era, either a real person or someone else's fictional character. Newman uses a couple of words too frequently and not always, in my opinion, correctly (I could've ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71274737">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot is incredibly creative. It is like a sequel to the original Dracula and pulls in political intrigue with the queen, and brings characters like Dr. Mearu and Dr. Jekyll into the story. It puts a fun spin on the Jack the Ripper killings as well. Very original and creative, but I also had a di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58199070">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this thinking &quot;this is the coolest alternative history book EVER!&quot; I recently flipped through it again, and still feel the same. The historical details Newman uses are great, the horror/fantasy elements gripping. A bit gory in parts, so not for the girly vampire romance ...]]></body>
    
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