![]() ![]() Whether it is Count Dracula’s marriage to Queen Victoria, or Dr. With a generous abundance of real and fictional characters in the plot, the author carves a new dimension out of completely unknown territories, where the deadly “Jack the Ripper” of the late nineteenth century encounters the spy from “Diogenes Club” (introduced by Arthur Conan Doyle in his “Sherlock Holmes” crime fiction series) who tracks him down through his endeavours of “ripping” apart “Vampire prostitutes.” ![]() Newman’s treatment of a league of the most popular form of mythical creatures studied across the literary world – Vampires, in their interactions with “normal” human beings who chose not to transform into the former type, creates a zone of curiosity among the readers regarding the clash of these two parallel universes which have remained distinctly separate until now. Kim Newman’s approach towards creating a world of parallel incidents and histories in his 1992 novel – “Anno Dracula,” the first in its series – by the same name, is an interesting case of a Crossover fiction, creating a rather remarkable junction for characters from the real and fictional realms. ![]()
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