Anno Dracula: 30th Anniversary Edition

Slightly cheating here because I listened to the rather good audiobook, but I did get this edition for my birthday and I'm saving the story at the end for Christmas Day, when it is customary to enjoy a Kim Newman read. It's been a while since I revisitied this volume, but the thrill of the elegant construction of a shared world using encyclopedic knowledge of vampire fictions while the subtle plot tightens and the wonderful characters develop. The hunt for Jack The Ripper, murdering newborn vampires with his silver knife, is merely one level on which this works, there are many others, and this is always fun to return to.