Just learned that the three Kim Newman Dracula novels (Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula Cha Cha Cha) are being reprinted. Here’s the cover of the first one:
Even better yet, each book will contain a series of ‘extras’ in the form of additional novellas. Anno Dracula contains two such novellas, each of which ‘fill in the blanks’ in the series. Even even better yet, one of the novella in this first reprint stars no less than Richard Jeperson! (Not to be confused with my own alter ego)
I’m so intrigued, since Richard J already appears (albeit very briefly) as an alternate dimension form of himself in the Anno Dracula novels. Will the new novella contain this version, or another?
But even, even, EVEN better – a fourth novel in the series has been announced! To be released in 2012, the fourth will be set in America and is called ‘Johnny Alucard’. Apparently it will feature a whole slew of alternate-USA celebrities and fictional characters including such people (?) as Buffy, Vampirella and even Elvira.
And lastly – directed to AW – you must immediately go and read the wiki entry on Life’s Lottery, specifically the ‘non interactive’ section. To say my jaw hit the floor is an understatement…
…kim newman is a dude?? @_@
Wow – a gamebook AND a proper novel in one. KN is operating on a higher intellectual plane.
Yeah. Also, from memory, I’m pretty sure both Keith Marion *and* Marion Keith exist as characters in other KN books!
Furthermore, I didn’t know about the Life’s Lottery/Quorum link. Quorum is the book I bought in the store near the Lindsay gallery. I can’t wait to read it now…