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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  kazancapi | Aug 2, 2009 |  What if Van Helsing and company had failed to destroy Dracula and the fiend's plan for the vampiric conquest of Britain was successful? This novel takes that supposition and runs with it. The year is 1888. Queen Victoria has remarried, Vlad Tepes is her new consort, and the vampires have taken over the Court and the government. Lord Ruthven and Sir Varney hold high positions. But in Whitechapel, someone is killing the vampire women.... (  ) avanta7 | Apr 22, 2009 | Single best Dracula/vampire novel *ever*. pipecad | Jul 2, 2007 | Blending many stories of the period and fact together this is the story of Charles Beauregard and Genevieve Dieudonne's investigation into the Jack the Ripper Murders. Jack is targeting vampires and this is destabilising things in an England where not only did Van Helsing fail but Dracula became the Prince Consort! Beauregard is working for the Diogenes Club, but what their motives are is unknown. Interesting and I'd like to find more information about some of the sources. ( ) wyvernfriend | Feb 21, 2007 | So the end of Dracula got rewritten. Much fun ensues in this series. (  ) lewispike | Dec 18, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0881849677, Hardcover)As Nina Auerbach writes in the New York Times, " 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." 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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:00 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Esencial para los amantes de las historias de vampiros y la fantasí histórica. (