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*GenreShift: Happens a few times. The Victorian murder mystery in the first book is interrupted (though only temporarily) by a Wuxia martial arts fight when a ChineseVampire cuts in.
** ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' starts out as one of the "romantic adventure in Europe" American films of the Fifties before it gets hi-jacked by a ''giallo'' slasher flick.
***And then it becomes a [[SpyFiction Spy Thriller]]. [[GenreRoulette Then a ''giallo'' again. Then a ReligiousHorror film.]]
** ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' starts out as one of the "romantic adventure in Europe" American films of the Fifties before it gets hi-jacked by a ''giallo'' slasher flick.
***And then it becomes a [[SpyFiction Spy Thriller]]. [[GenreRoulette Then a ''giallo'' again. Then a ReligiousHorror film.]]
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: Newman gets a kick out of this trope. He is, after all, a film critic. For example, Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Dracula story in this universe stars [[ApocalypseNow Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen]].
** Not limited to films, either. In-universe IAmLegend is treated as an anti-vampire propaganda novel.
** Not limited to films, either. In-universe IAmLegend is treated as an anti-vampire propaganda novel.
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: Newman gets a kick out of this trope. He is, after all, a film critic. For example, Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Dracula story in this universe stars [[ApocalypseNow [[Film/ApocalypseNow Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen]].
** Not limited to films, either. In-universeIAmLegend ''Literature/IAmLegend'' is treated as an anti-vampire propaganda novel.
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* GeorgeLucasThrowback: Short story "Vampire Romance" is a throwback to Agatha Christie style murder mysteries. ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' starts out as one of the "romantic adventure in Europe" American films of the Fifties before it gets hi-jacked by a ''giallo'' slasher flick.
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* GeorgeLucasThrowback: Short GenreThrowback:
** The short story "Vampire Romance" is a throwback to Agatha Christie style murdermysteries. mysteries.
** ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' starts out as one of the "romantic adventure in Europe" American films of the Fifties before it gets hi-jacked by a ''giallo'' slasher flick.
** The short story "Vampire Romance" is a throwback to Agatha Christie style murder
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They definitely exist in-universe, but we've yet to meet one. Usually werewolf gets spelled with a hyphen because that's how Stoker spelled it in [[Literature/{{Dracula}}]].
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They definitely exist in-universe, but we've yet to meet one. Usually werewolf gets spelled with a hyphen because that's how Stoker spelled it in [[Literature/{{Dracula}}]].''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
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* ShoutOut: Oy. Where to start?
** To clarify; any piece of seemingly unnecessary exposition, any background character who gets more than a sentence of description? A ShoutOut to something.
** To clarify; any piece of seemingly unnecessary exposition, any background character who gets more than a sentence of description? A ShoutOut to something.
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** To clarify; anystart? Any piece of seemingly unnecessary exposition, any background character who gets more than a sentence of description? A ShoutOut to something.
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*ParanormalEpisode: Yes, even in a story with vampires. ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' features [[spoiler: a trio of witch-goddesses who control the city of Rome.]]
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*DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: Newman gets a kick out of this trope. He is, after all, a film critic. For example, Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Dracula story in this universe stars [[ApocalypseNow Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen]].
**Not limited to films, either. In-universe IAmLegend is treated as an anti-vampire propaganda novel.
**Not limited to films, either. In-universe IAmLegend is treated as an anti-vampire propaganda novel.
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*AristocratsAreEvil: Most vampire elders (slang for any vampire who's outlived their mortal lifetime twice over) are assholes. A significant proportion of them go by [[FollowTheLeader "Count"]].
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*YourVampiresSuck: "Vampire Romance" completely rips up the concept of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Sparkling vampires are mentioned.
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*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Classic Romero flesh-eaters. Actually a bloodline of brain-dead vampires that "chew" blood rather than suck it. Nobody seems concerned about the possibility of a ZombieApocalypse; they seem mostly confined in a Roman slum.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Classic Romero flesh-eaters. Actually a bloodline of brain-dead vampires that "chew" blood rather than suck it. Nobody seems concerned about the possibility of a ZombieApocalypse; they seem mostly confined in a Roman slum.
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** Another example is one of the thugs who attacks Hamish Bond in ''Judgment of Blood''- physically he resembles FrankensteinsMonster, but he has [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws']] teeth, [[{{Film/Goldfinger}} Oddjob's]] hat, and his nickname is [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Flattop.]]
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** Another example is one of the thugs who attacks Hamish Bond in ''Judgment of Blood''- ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' -- physically he resembles FrankensteinsMonster, but he has [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws']] teeth, [[{{Film/Goldfinger}} Oddjob's]] hat, and his nickname is [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Flattop.]]
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* CelebrityParadox: Parodied and spliced with LiteraryAgentHypothesis. ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' has an actor who played Tarzan meet up with the actual Lord Greystoke.
** And in ''Bloody Red Baron, we get a CrowningMomentOfFunny [[spoiler: when Bela Lugosi impersonates Dracula during a suicide mission.]]
** And in ''Bloody Red Baron, we get a CrowningMomentOfFunny [[spoiler: when Bela Lugosi impersonates Dracula during a suicide mission.]]
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* CelebrityParadox: Parodied and spliced with LiteraryAgentHypothesis. CelebrityParadox:
** ''Dracula Cha Cha Cha'' has an actor who played Tarzan meet up with the actual Lord Greystoke.
**And in ''Bloody In ''The Bloody Red Baron, we get a CrowningMomentOfFunny [[spoiler: when Bela Baron'', [[spoiler:Bela Lugosi impersonates Dracula during a suicide mission.]]mission]].
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Some vampires are implied to have the traditional fangs (Inspector Lestrade's are described as ''tusks'') and evening dress, but walk about in broad da... nightlight without a second thought. Also, characters like the FrankensteinMonster apparently don't arouse any suspicion on the streets of Rome.
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**And in ''Bloody Red Baron, we get a CrowningMomentOfFunny [[spoiler: when Bela Lugosi impersonates Dracula during a suicide mission.]]
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*CompositeCharacter: Done a few times, to work as many references into a character as possible. In particular, Dracula himself is implied to be every version of Dracula, ever (when we first see him, his body is constantly changing shape, and in the second book [[spoiler: Bela Lugosi can pass as his double).]]
**Another example is one of the thugs who attacks Hamish Bond in ''Judgment of Blood''- physically he resembles the FrankensteinsMonster, but he has [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws']] teeth, [[{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob's]] hat, and his nickname is [[DickTracy Flattop.]]
**Another example is one of the thugs who attacks Hamish Bond in ''Judgment of Blood''- physically he resembles the FrankensteinsMonster, but he has [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws']] teeth, [[{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob's]] hat, and his nickname is [[DickTracy Flattop.]]
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* TwentiesBobHaircut: "Vampire Romance", set in 1923, begins with Genevieve getting a bob as part of fitting in to the new era. (The chapter title, "Genevieve Bobs Her Hair", is a shout-out to FScottFitzgerald's short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair".)
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* TwentiesBobHaircut: The first chapter of "Vampire Romance", set in 1923, is called "Genevieve Bobs Her Hair", in imitation of Fitzgerald. Genevieve gets a bob as part of fitting in to the new era.* TheUnmasquedWorld: After Dracula takes over England and all the vampires come out of hiding.
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* TheUnmasquedWorld: After Dracula takes over England and all the vampires come out of hiding.
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* "Vampire Romance": 1923. A group of influential elder vampires meets, and Genevieve Dieudonne attends at the behest of the Diogenes Club.
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* TheThreeFacesOfEve: In ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'', the GeniusLoci "Mama Roma" takes ''four'' forms: girl, mother, whore and crone.
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* "Aquarius": 1968. Kate Reed investigates a series of vampire-related murders in Swinging London.
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* KarmaHoudini: Lord Ruthven and Caleb Croft, who helped Dracula set up his police state and then ran one of their own for the next 30 years. At last report, Ruthven was Home Secretary in MargaretThatcher's cabinet (and planning the next in his seemingly endless series of ascents to the big chair), while Croft had retired to become an esteemed sociology professor.
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* TheSpymaster: Mycroft Holmes, Charles Beauregard, Armand Tesla, [[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler Dr. Mabuse]], Edwin Winthrop, Gregor Brastov, and Caleb Croft (who was "C" at [[Film/JamesBond Universal Export]] and "Control" at [[Creator/JohnLeCarre the Circus]]).
* TakeThat: Newman isn't shy about giving unflattering portrayals to real-life personages he doesn't care for. Hanns Heinz Ewers, Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and Enoch Powell are seen in a particularly bad light.
* TakeThat: Newman isn't shy about giving unflattering portrayals to real-life personages he doesn't care for. Hanns Heinz Ewers, Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and Enoch Powell are seen in a particularly bad light.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In "Vampire Romance", the villain turns out to be [[spoiler:a vampirised Richard III, who is ''worse'' than Shakespeare portrayed him. He resents Will for saying he sent someone to kill the Princes in the Tower; he dealt with them ''personally'']].
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* ExternalRetcon: Van Helsing and his cronies are revealed to be less virtuous than Bram Stoker depicted them in ''Dracula''. (Dracula himself is much the same, though, and certainly not a misunderstood hero.)
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Dracula is a veritable giant in the climax of ''Anno''.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[spoiler: Jack Seward turns out to be the Ripper.]]
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* InSpiteOfANail: By the second book, World War One is happening in roughly the same way it did in our history (with a LampshadeHanging that many believe it wouldn't have happened without the vampire influence), and by the third book (set in TheFifties) the vampires seem to have had no real effect on history at all; they exist, but everything else is the same. "Coppola's Dracula" recapitulates the making of ''ApocalypseNow'' with bizarre precision, considering it's set in a different history and concerns a film based on a different book.
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* TroubledProduction: "Coppola's Dracula" is an InUniverse example, being the alternate-history version of the making of ''ApocalypseNow''.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: For instance the unnamed gumshoe in "Castles In The Desert" - who just happens to have PhilipMarlowe's backstory, up to and including ''[[PosthumousCollaboration Poodle Springs]]''.
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The ''Anno Dracula'' series by KimNewman is set in an AlternateHistory where {{Dracula}} defeated Van Helsing's group of vampire hunters and conquered Britain, resulting in vampires coming out of the woodwork and becoming visible (if not always exactly accepted) members of society.
One of the features of the series is that it is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, with every significant vampire in fiction getting at least a mention or a cameo, along with an enormous number of other famous fictional characters who had not previously been associated with vampires. One of the main characters is Geneviève Dieudonné, this universe's version of the title character from Newman's WarhammerFantasy series ''The Vampire Genevieve''.
It consists of three novels and numerous short stories:
* ''Anno Dracula'': 1888. Dracula rules England as Prince Consort. JackTheRipper stalks vampire prostitutes in Whitechapel. Charles Beauregard, a (non-vampire) agent of the Diogenes Club, is sent to track the murderer down, and finds himself enmeshed in a plot to free England from Dracula's rule.
* ''The Bloody Red Baron'': 1918. WorldWarOne devastates Europe. Vampires fight on both sides.
* ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' (alt. title ''Judgment of Tears''): 1959. Every vampire who is anybody is flocking to Rome for Dracula's wedding, but there is a mysterious vampire killer on the loose.
* "Castle in the Desert": 1977. A private detective investigates the death of his ex-wife, found at the bottom of her swimming pool with an iron stake driven through her, and the disappearance of her daughter, last seen falling in with a crowd of vampire cultists.
* "Coppola's Dracula" 1976. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola is making the film for which he will always be remembered--an adaptation of ''Dracula'' starring MarlonBrando as Dracula and MartinSheen as Jonathan Harker. The film crew is befriended by a young-looking vampire, who leaves with them when they return to America.
* "Andy Warhol's Dracula": 1978. Johnny Pop, the young-looking vampire who came to America with Coppola's film crew, finds his place in his new homeland, on his way to becoming the next Dracula. He becomes rich and socially successful, but risks losing it all when the many enemies he makes along the way join forces against him.
* "Who Dares Wins": 1980. The Romanian Embassy in London has been taken over by "freedom fighters" who want Transylvania to become a homeland for the undead.
* "The Other Side of Midnight": 1981. Orson Welles receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of ''Dracula'', and hires a private detective to find out why.
* "You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings": 1984. A covert mission using undead agents to unseat the Ceausescu regime in Romania.
Titan Books is in the process of reprinting the three novels, to be followed by a new fourth book incorporating some of the short stories.
!!The Anno Dracula series provides examples of:
* ABNegative: In ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'', the vampire [[Radio/HancocksHalfHour Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock boasts that he can only drink AB- blood]].
* AcePilot: ''The Bloody Red Baron'' sees {{Biggles}}, Captain Midnight and Radio/TheShadow go up against the Red Baron, [[EnemyAce Hans von Hammer]] and {{Airboy}}'s ally the Heap.
* AlternateHistory: The heroes of the original novel fail, Mina joins the undead and Dracula is free to spread his vampirism. However this isn't as bad as you think.
* AscendedExtra: Kate Reed, who was actually ''written out'' of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' before publication, becomes a major character.
* BadassBoast: Genevieve Dieudonne has one towards the end of ''Anno Dracula'' when she and Charles meet Dracula himself after he gives a long speech to her. Dracula is fifty years younger than she, and having seized control of London, murdering innocents and making himself a tyrant Prince Consort, is overly arrogant:
-->''"Were you not alone Genevieve Dieudonne? And are you not among friends now? Among equals?"''\\
''"Impaler," she declared, "I have no equal."''
* CaptainErsatz: The series mostly prefers the LawyerFriendlyCameo, but occasionally resorts to characters who, as the saying goes, resemble but are legally distinct from the Lollipop Guild. These include vampire hunter [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Barbie Winters]] in "The Other Side of Midnight" and secret agent [[Film/JamesBond Hamish Bond]] in ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha''.
** ''Anno Dracula'' features a cameo by an American reporter in a white suit and straw hat commenting on the Ripper case as a time-displaced ShoutOut to one of Newman's favourite shows. Since this is clearly supposed to be [[KolchakTheNightStalker Carl Kolchak]], Newman has later admitted to kicking himself for lacking the foresight to see that the series would go on have installments set in the 1970s, where he could use Kolchak more naturally.
* ChineseVampire: One makes an appearance in ''Anno Dracula''.
* ChurchOfHappyology: "Castle in the Desert" has L. Keith Winton, the vampiric author of ''Plasmatics: The New Communion'', and founder of the Church of Immortology.
* CreativeSterility:
** In ''The Bloody Red Baron'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe has not written a word of fiction since he became a vampire.
** In "Andy Warhol's Dracula", [[spoiler:there's a subversion -- it's widely agreed that the artworks Warhol created after he became a vampire lack an essential spark present in his earlier work, but it turns out at the end that Warhol never actually crossed over, only adopted vampire mannerisms, and remained human his entire life]].
** Also played with in that several other famous people -- such as Bob Dylan -- are mentioned to have become vampires, and suffer the same lack of creative spark in their later works. However, several of these criticisms have ''also'' been raised about the real, non-vampire artists as their careers have progressed and their fields have moved on.
* DeconstructionCrossover
* DepravedHomosexual: ''Anno Dracula'' has Vardalek, a diseased, murderously sadistic member of the Carpathian Guard.
* DyingClue: Played with in ''Anno Dracula'', where one of the Ripper's victims, in her dying spasm, grabs the trouser leg of the attending doctor. The protagonists jokingly suggest that she was trying to tell them the killer's name was "Sydney Trouser", or that she was aiming for "Mr Boot" and missed. It takes them much longer to discover what the audience by this point already knows: that the doctor is the Ripper.
* EmergencyTransformation: In ''Anno Dracula'', there's a scene where Genevieve attempts to perform an Emergency Transformation on a friend who has been fatally wounded in an attack, but the friend chooses to die rather than become a vampire.
* FantasticSlurs: In ''Anno Dracula'' some living humans call vampires "leeches" (and some vampires have a rather derogotary way of saying "the warm"). In "Castle in the Desert", a California diner has a sign saying "No Vipers".
* GeniusLoci: Mama Roma in ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[Creator/BramStoker Bram and Florence Stoker]], QueenVicky, and JackTheRipper are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
* InSpiteOfANail: By the second book, World War One is happening in roughly the same way it did in our history (with a LampshadeHanging that many believe it wouldn't have happened without the vampire influence), and by the third book (set in TheFifties) the vampires seem to have had no real effect on history at all; they exist, but everything else is the same. "Coppola's Dracula" recapitulates the making of ''ApocalypseNow'' with bizarre precision, considering it's set in a different history and concerns a film based on a different book.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: For instance the unnamed gumshoe in "Castles In The Desert" - who just happens to have PhilipMarlowe's backstory, up to and including ''[[PosthumousCollaboration Poodle Springs]]''.
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* MuggingTheMonster: A couple of high-ranking vampires are bullying the locals in a pub when Genevieve calmly approaches them and asks them to stop. They initially dismiss her as a 'newborn' (i.e. a recent vampire) and attempt to throw their weight around with her too, but soon learn that she's far more powerful than them. One of them, however, has either more brains or sharper senses than his fellows and decides that discretion is the better part of valour in this case.
* TheNecrocracy: England toggles back and forth from malevolent to somewhat decent. The subjects include both vampires and "the warm." The former can be good, but the ones who wind up in authority tend to be somewhat self-serving.
* NoImmortalInertia: Vampires, when they die, tend to revert to whatever shape they'd be if they hadn't become vampires (ie. rotting corpses, or if they're old enough, dust). ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' has a weird twist where a model, who became a vampire to preserve her youthful beauty, gets killed and immediately gains all the weight she would have put on if she'd remained mortal.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires come from a number of various "Bloodlines", but are considered biological entities with "just a touch" of magic (they don't cast reflections, for example). Some may be able to transform, while others have corpse-like features, and others suffer from blood frenzy. Religious symbols and even garlic only affect those vampires who believe they can. Sunlight only hurts younger undead, and silver only serves to counter their regeneration abilities; any sufficient organ damage (like, say, a stake though the heart) can kill them for good. Notably, Dracula specifically isn't vulnerable to as many things as he is in Bram Stoker's version; the turning point of history comes when he shrugs off an attack that, in Stoker's novel, seriously inconvenienced him.
* PrecisionFStrike: Both meta- and in-universe; towards the end of ''Anno Dracula'', a chapter clinically details the movements of the two main characters as they, quite unwittingly, head towards one of JackTheRipper's particularly gruesome murder scenes. The next chapter, which details what they see and what happens when they arrive, is simply called "Fucking Hell!" It appears that one of the main characters had quite this reaction word-for-word in-universe as well.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Dracula, obviously, and also Mycroft Holmes and others.
* ReferenceOverdosed
* RightHandCat: Gregor Brastov in ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' is a Blofeldish cat-stroking archvillain who turns out to be [[spoiler:just a puppet manipulated by the real archvillain -- his cat. Hamish Bond should have remembered that some vampires have VoluntaryShapeshifting]].
* ShoutOut: Oy. Where to start?
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: In ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'', the GeniusLoci "Mama Roma" takes ''four'' forms: girl, mother, whore and crone.
* TroubledProduction: "Coppola's Dracula" is an InUniverse example, being the alternate-history version of the making of ''ApocalypseNow''.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: After Dracula takes over England and all the vampires come out of hiding.
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One of the features of the series is that it is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, with every significant vampire in fiction getting at least a mention or a cameo, along with an enormous number of other famous fictional characters who had not previously been associated with vampires. One of the main characters is Geneviève Dieudonné, this universe's version of the title character from Newman's WarhammerFantasy series ''The Vampire Genevieve''.
It consists of three novels and numerous short stories:
* ''Anno Dracula'': 1888. Dracula rules England as Prince Consort. JackTheRipper stalks vampire prostitutes in Whitechapel. Charles Beauregard, a (non-vampire) agent of the Diogenes Club, is sent to track the murderer down, and finds himself enmeshed in a plot to free England from Dracula's rule.
* ''The Bloody Red Baron'': 1918. WorldWarOne devastates Europe. Vampires fight on both sides.
* ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' (alt. title ''Judgment of Tears''): 1959. Every vampire who is anybody is flocking to Rome for Dracula's wedding, but there is a mysterious vampire killer on the loose.
* "Castle in the Desert": 1977. A private detective investigates the death of his ex-wife, found at the bottom of her swimming pool with an iron stake driven through her, and the disappearance of her daughter, last seen falling in with a crowd of vampire cultists.
* "Coppola's Dracula" 1976. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola is making the film for which he will always be remembered--an adaptation of ''Dracula'' starring MarlonBrando as Dracula and MartinSheen as Jonathan Harker. The film crew is befriended by a young-looking vampire, who leaves with them when they return to America.
* "Andy Warhol's Dracula": 1978. Johnny Pop, the young-looking vampire who came to America with Coppola's film crew, finds his place in his new homeland, on his way to becoming the next Dracula. He becomes rich and socially successful, but risks losing it all when the many enemies he makes along the way join forces against him.
* "Who Dares Wins": 1980. The Romanian Embassy in London has been taken over by "freedom fighters" who want Transylvania to become a homeland for the undead.
* "The Other Side of Midnight": 1981. Orson Welles receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of ''Dracula'', and hires a private detective to find out why.
* "You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings": 1984. A covert mission using undead agents to unseat the Ceausescu regime in Romania.
Titan Books is in the process of reprinting the three novels, to be followed by a new fourth book incorporating some of the short stories.
!!The Anno Dracula series provides examples of:
* ABNegative: In ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'', the vampire [[Radio/HancocksHalfHour Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock boasts that he can only drink AB- blood]].
* AcePilot: ''The Bloody Red Baron'' sees {{Biggles}}, Captain Midnight and Radio/TheShadow go up against the Red Baron, [[EnemyAce Hans von Hammer]] and {{Airboy}}'s ally the Heap.
* AlternateHistory: The heroes of the original novel fail, Mina joins the undead and Dracula is free to spread his vampirism. However this isn't as bad as you think.
* AscendedExtra: Kate Reed, who was actually ''written out'' of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' before publication, becomes a major character.
* BadassBoast: Genevieve Dieudonne has one towards the end of ''Anno Dracula'' when she and Charles meet Dracula himself after he gives a long speech to her. Dracula is fifty years younger than she, and having seized control of London, murdering innocents and making himself a tyrant Prince Consort, is overly arrogant:
-->''"Were you not alone Genevieve Dieudonne? And are you not among friends now? Among equals?"''\\
''"Impaler," she declared, "I have no equal."''
* CaptainErsatz: The series mostly prefers the LawyerFriendlyCameo, but occasionally resorts to characters who, as the saying goes, resemble but are legally distinct from the Lollipop Guild. These include vampire hunter [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Barbie Winters]] in "The Other Side of Midnight" and secret agent [[Film/JamesBond Hamish Bond]] in ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha''.
** ''Anno Dracula'' features a cameo by an American reporter in a white suit and straw hat commenting on the Ripper case as a time-displaced ShoutOut to one of Newman's favourite shows. Since this is clearly supposed to be [[KolchakTheNightStalker Carl Kolchak]], Newman has later admitted to kicking himself for lacking the foresight to see that the series would go on have installments set in the 1970s, where he could use Kolchak more naturally.
* ChineseVampire: One makes an appearance in ''Anno Dracula''.
* ChurchOfHappyology: "Castle in the Desert" has L. Keith Winton, the vampiric author of ''Plasmatics: The New Communion'', and founder of the Church of Immortology.
* CreativeSterility:
** In ''The Bloody Red Baron'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe has not written a word of fiction since he became a vampire.
** In "Andy Warhol's Dracula", [[spoiler:there's a subversion -- it's widely agreed that the artworks Warhol created after he became a vampire lack an essential spark present in his earlier work, but it turns out at the end that Warhol never actually crossed over, only adopted vampire mannerisms, and remained human his entire life]].
** Also played with in that several other famous people -- such as Bob Dylan -- are mentioned to have become vampires, and suffer the same lack of creative spark in their later works. However, several of these criticisms have ''also'' been raised about the real, non-vampire artists as their careers have progressed and their fields have moved on.
* DeconstructionCrossover
* DepravedHomosexual: ''Anno Dracula'' has Vardalek, a diseased, murderously sadistic member of the Carpathian Guard.
* DyingClue: Played with in ''Anno Dracula'', where one of the Ripper's victims, in her dying spasm, grabs the trouser leg of the attending doctor. The protagonists jokingly suggest that she was trying to tell them the killer's name was "Sydney Trouser", or that she was aiming for "Mr Boot" and missed. It takes them much longer to discover what the audience by this point already knows: that the doctor is the Ripper.
* EmergencyTransformation: In ''Anno Dracula'', there's a scene where Genevieve attempts to perform an Emergency Transformation on a friend who has been fatally wounded in an attack, but the friend chooses to die rather than become a vampire.
* FantasticSlurs: In ''Anno Dracula'' some living humans call vampires "leeches" (and some vampires have a rather derogotary way of saying "the warm"). In "Castle in the Desert", a California diner has a sign saying "No Vipers".
* GeniusLoci: Mama Roma in ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[Creator/BramStoker Bram and Florence Stoker]], QueenVicky, and JackTheRipper are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
* InSpiteOfANail: By the second book, World War One is happening in roughly the same way it did in our history (with a LampshadeHanging that many believe it wouldn't have happened without the vampire influence), and by the third book (set in TheFifties) the vampires seem to have had no real effect on history at all; they exist, but everything else is the same. "Coppola's Dracula" recapitulates the making of ''ApocalypseNow'' with bizarre precision, considering it's set in a different history and concerns a film based on a different book.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: For instance the unnamed gumshoe in "Castles In The Desert" - who just happens to have PhilipMarlowe's backstory, up to and including ''[[PosthumousCollaboration Poodle Springs]]''.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover
* MuggingTheMonster: A couple of high-ranking vampires are bullying the locals in a pub when Genevieve calmly approaches them and asks them to stop. They initially dismiss her as a 'newborn' (i.e. a recent vampire) and attempt to throw their weight around with her too, but soon learn that she's far more powerful than them. One of them, however, has either more brains or sharper senses than his fellows and decides that discretion is the better part of valour in this case.
* TheNecrocracy: England toggles back and forth from malevolent to somewhat decent. The subjects include both vampires and "the warm." The former can be good, but the ones who wind up in authority tend to be somewhat self-serving.
* NoImmortalInertia: Vampires, when they die, tend to revert to whatever shape they'd be if they hadn't become vampires (ie. rotting corpses, or if they're old enough, dust). ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' has a weird twist where a model, who became a vampire to preserve her youthful beauty, gets killed and immediately gains all the weight she would have put on if she'd remained mortal.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires come from a number of various "Bloodlines", but are considered biological entities with "just a touch" of magic (they don't cast reflections, for example). Some may be able to transform, while others have corpse-like features, and others suffer from blood frenzy. Religious symbols and even garlic only affect those vampires who believe they can. Sunlight only hurts younger undead, and silver only serves to counter their regeneration abilities; any sufficient organ damage (like, say, a stake though the heart) can kill them for good. Notably, Dracula specifically isn't vulnerable to as many things as he is in Bram Stoker's version; the turning point of history comes when he shrugs off an attack that, in Stoker's novel, seriously inconvenienced him.
* PrecisionFStrike: Both meta- and in-universe; towards the end of ''Anno Dracula'', a chapter clinically details the movements of the two main characters as they, quite unwittingly, head towards one of JackTheRipper's particularly gruesome murder scenes. The next chapter, which details what they see and what happens when they arrive, is simply called "Fucking Hell!" It appears that one of the main characters had quite this reaction word-for-word in-universe as well.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Dracula, obviously, and also Mycroft Holmes and others.
* ReferenceOverdosed
* RightHandCat: Gregor Brastov in ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' is a Blofeldish cat-stroking archvillain who turns out to be [[spoiler:just a puppet manipulated by the real archvillain -- his cat. Hamish Bond should have remembered that some vampires have VoluntaryShapeshifting]].
* ShoutOut: Oy. Where to start?
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: In ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'', the GeniusLoci "Mama Roma" takes ''four'' forms: girl, mother, whore and crone.
* TroubledProduction: "Coppola's Dracula" is an InUniverse example, being the alternate-history version of the making of ''ApocalypseNow''.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: After Dracula takes over England and all the vampires come out of hiding.
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