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Johnny Alucard

Anno Dracula Book 4

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Dracula Comes to New York: Kim Newman returns to one of the great, best-selling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with the Vampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century, this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series.

Newman’s dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker’s Dr. John Seward and enslaved Victorian England? Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments, Dracula seems long gone. A relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard descends upon America, stalking the streets of New York and Hollywood, haunting the lives of the rich and famous, from Sid and Nancy to Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of 1980s America, it seems the past might not be dead after all.

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I really liked the first three books but this one falls a little short getting tedious in places. The final three chapters or appendices are just mind numbing pieces about Warhol and Welles.

Meandering

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loved it
Tieing all Dracula stories, books and films in, for an excellent read listen

a good book, bounces around sub stories

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I loved the others and this one is still awesome, if not as strong as the first three. It captures the spirit of the late 20th century in America extremely effectively. Although it still somehow works, the addition of so many pop culture and famous figures feels a little gratuitous by the end. But still recommended.

Still a great entry in the series.

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Great detail in both story and characters but in the end I personally think it got dragged out a bit to far. But as a series of stories I thought they were great.

A bit convoluted with complex timelines

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This is the weakest of the Anno Dracula series by far.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first three, and as usual enjoyed the cultural references. Kim Newman's role as a film critic really shows in his detailed accounts of imaginary Dracula flicks.

The whole thing is a vehicle for Newman's cleaver analysis, and imaginative reconstructions of Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Andy Warhol and their works. Which unfortunately descends into lists of third-assistant-gaffers, and the like, on invented films, or of Factory hangers on.

The real problem is the lack of plot and ending. The book goes on forever then the narrative stops abruptly, only to be carried on with two appendices of more name dropping lists.

I'd recommend only for Newman completists or hardcore fans of the creatives analysed (some of that analysis is a joy), but as a novel less so.

List after list

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