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Vampires : the Recent Undead (2011)
English
The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into twenty-first century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there''s even apps for vamps. Whether roaming into romance, haunting horror, sneaking into science fiction, capering into humor, meandering through mystery - no icon is more versatile than the vampire. Slake your insatiable thirst with the best sanguinary stories of the new millennium: terrifying or tender, deadly or delicious, bad-ass or beneficent, classic or cutting-edge.
Anno Dracula (1998)
English
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 Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society. While Dracula is a central figure in the events of the series, he is a minor character in the books themselves, and usually appears in only a few climactic pages of each book. While many of the characters from Newman's Diogenes Club stories appear in the Anno Dracula novels, they are not the same versions as appear in those stories, nor is the Diogenes Club itself exactly the same.
The series is known for its carefully researched historical settings and the author's use as supporting characters of both historical people and fictional characters of the appropriate period. The metafictional style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and Neil Gaiman helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author).[1] Gaiman has also credited the series as being one of the main influences on his short story "A Study in Emerald".[2]
Entries in the series have won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, the Lord Ruthven Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and have been short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
The series currently consists of three novels and a number of short stories and novellas.
Español
La serie Anno Dracula de Kim Newman, que recibe su nombre de primera novela de la serie, traducida al castellano como El año de Drácula (1992)1 y La era de Drácula (2010),2 es una serie de novelas de literatura fantástica que describe una historia alternativa en la que los personajes de la novela Drácula de Bram Stoker no consiguieron detener al Conde Drácula en su conquista de Gran Bretaña a finales del siglo XIX, lo que ha provocado la evolución de un mundo en el que los vampiros son habituales y se encuentran integrados en la sociedad.
La serie destaca por sus escenarios históricos y por el uso que el autor realiza tanto de personajes históricos como ficticios del período apropiado. Este estilo metaficticio fue inspirado por el Universo Wold Newton de Philip José Farmer. Neil Gaiman ayudó a desarrollar la serie (y originalmente iba a ser su co-autor).3 Aunque Drácula es la figura central en los acontecimientos de la serie debido a sus manipulaciones y planes, su presencia real es reducida, y normalmente solo aparece en unos pocos acontecimientos climáticos de cada libro.
La serie ha recibido varios premios de la Dracula Society, la Lord Ruthven Assembly y el International Horror Guild, y ha sido nominada en varias ocasiones al Premio Bram Stoker y al Premio de Historia Alternativa.
Actualmente (2009) la serie consiste en tres novelas y varios relatos cortos. En español han sido traducidas las dos primeras novelas de la serie y un relato: El año de Drácula, El sanguinario barón rojo y El otro lado de la medianoche.
Dracula Cha Cha Cha (1998)
English
n 1959, several of the world's notable vampires gather in Rome for the wedding of Count Dracula. Nefarious schemes are afoot and being investigated by British Intelligence, the Diogenes Club, and several others, including a British spy on the trail of a sinister madman with a white cat.
The book is an alternate history novel set in a world where Van Helsing never killed Dracula. The version of Rome shown in the book is heavily influenced by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. As always in the series, the novel contains a number of characters from other fictional works, though due to copyright restrictions some are not named or are given aliases.
Some of these identity shifts are quite clear (such as the character of Commander Hamish Bond, who has a fondness for martinis, drives an Aston Martin, carries a Walther PPK, has the Scots version of the name "James" for his name, and gets to say "the bitch is dead."), while some are more obscure (a Kansas football player named Kent, for example).
The novel's original title is inspired by Bruno Martino's song Dracula Cha Cha Cha, which appears on the album Italian Graffiti (1960/61?) and is performed onscreen in Vincente Minnelli's film Two Weeks in Another Town (1962).
Bloody Red Baron (1996)
English
The book takes place during World War I, and centers around the Diogenes Club's efforts to investigate Germany's attempt to make powerful, undead fliers. Heading up the German operations are the likes of Rotwang, Doctor Caligari and Doctor Mabuse. One of their more successful efforts is an undead flier known as the Red Baron. The story also features Edgar Allan Poe as a vampire writer assigned to ghost write the Red Baron's autobiography.
Anno Dracula (1992)
English
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.
Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.
This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.
Español
1888. Drácula se ha casado con la Reina Victoria y gobierna como Príncipe Consorte. Varios vampiros ficticios han surgido de su ocultamiento y han ganado nuevas posiciones sociales. Pero el gobierno del nuevo régimen no es seguro: Jack el destripador acecha en Whitechapel, asesinando a prostitutas vampiro. Charles Beauregard, un agente mortal del Club Diógenes, es enviado a capturar al asesino y se encuentra envuelto en un plan para liberar a Gran Bretaña del dominio de Drácula.
De forma inusual para la serie, varios de los personajes que aparecen en El año de Drácula no tienen vínculos con el período. Por citar dos ejemplos, la heroína Geneviève Dieudonné es reciclada de las novelas de Warhammer de Kim Newman Drachenfels (1989) (escrita bajo el nombre de Jack Yeovil) y Carl Kolchak de Kolchak:The Night Stalker tiene una breve aparición como reportero que sigue el caso del destripadro (Newman ha mencionado que si se hubiera dado cuenta de que escribiría tantas continuaciones de la serie, habría reservado a Kolchak para una historia ambientada en la década de 1970, su época nativa).
Publicada en octubre de 1992, El año de Drácula ganó el premio "Hijos de la Noche" de la Dracula Society y el Premio literario de la Lord Rutven Assembly y el premio a la mejor novel del International Horror Guild, y fue nominada a mejor novela para el Premio Bram Stoker.
La Enciclopedia de Fantasía clasifica El año de Drácula como "fantasía recursiva", dentro del género steampunk, pero con elementos de romance victoriano.
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