The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Crossover Covers: Anno Dracula
I previously posted the cover of Johnny Alucard, the fourth entry in Kim Newman's excellent alternate history-horror hybrid series Anno Dracula, which is filled with appearances and references to characters from other works of fiction. Johnny Alucard mixed revised versions of the various short stories Newman wrote for that universe with new material to form a full-length novel. Prior to publishing this fourth book, Titan Books reprinted the first three volumes with bonus materials, including brand-new novellas accompanying The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula Cha Cha. Win included an appendix called "The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide" in Volume 2, and in the new volumes there will be an appendix covering the references in the new novellas and Alucard, as well as some additional references in the books and stories covered in Volume 2's guide that I discovered. I highly recommend this series.
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I really liked Anno Dracula and need to read the other books in the series.
ReplyDeleteKim Newman (who I'm friends with on Facebook) shared the link to this post on his FB wall. I found that extremely flattering, considering how long I've been a fan of his work!
ReplyDeleteI've liked most of what I've read by Newman. Besides Anno Dracula I've read a collection of his Diogenes Club stories which was really good. I'm looking forward to his Witchfinder comic series.
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