While many of the characters from Newman's Diogenes Club stories appear in the Anno Dracula novels, they are not the same as the ones in those stories, nor is the Diogenes Club itself the same. While Dracula is a central figure in the events of the series, he is a minor character in the books and usually appears in only a few climactic pages of each book. The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman-named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel-is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society. 'Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre’s ongoing revolution.Public domain depictions of some of the main characters used in This clever, delicious extravaganza – Hammer Horror meets True (Blue) Blood – is just the tonic for the year of a Royal Wedding.' - Stephen Volk Kim Newman has exsanguinated the best of fact and fiction and created a vivid vampirous Victorian world uniquely his own. It’s a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.' 'Anno Dracula couldn’t be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. Newman’s prose will remain gloriously unique.' - Locus Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent and revelatory. 'The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats' - San Francisco Chronicle 'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read' - Washington Post Book World 'A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror and alternative history. 'A tour de force which succeeds brilliantly' - The Times Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail spellbinding' - Time Out 'Politics, horror and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realised novel. one of the most creative novels of the year' - Seattle Times 'A brilliantly witty parallel-world saga… builds sure-footedly to bravura climax which entirely redefines ‘Victorian values’' - Daily Telegraph 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.' - New York Times 'Stephen King assumes we hate vampires Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves.

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