![]() ![]() ![]() In this world, Vlad Tepes killed Abraham Van Helsing, and an injury sustained to Dr. The novel deviates from the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The main characters are Jack the Ripper, and his hunters Charles Beauregard (an agent of the Diogenes Club), and Geneviève Dieudonné, an elder French vampire (a similar version of Dieudonné appeared in Newman's trilogy of novels, written under the pseudonym Jack Yeovil, for the Warhammer Fantasy universe). The reader is alternately and sympathetically introduced to various points of view. The interplay between humans who have chosen to "turn" into vampires and those who are "warm" (humans) is the backdrop for the plot which tracks Jack the Ripper's politically charged destruction of vampire prostitutes. It is an alternate history using 19th-century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fiction. ![]() Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the Anno Dracula series. ![]()
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