Crossover Cover: Anno Dracula 1902: The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars

 

Are you a fan of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series?

Then you'll love the new story in that universe included as a bonus in this book!

For more information, be sure to purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju

 

Today is my birthday, so to celebrate, I’m doing something special, by posting an excerpt from Appendix 1 of the new book, “The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide.” Enjoy!

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju (Titan Books, 2019)

• Richard Jeperson is from Newman’s The Man from the Diogenes Club

• Christina Light (Roderick Hudson and The Princess Casamassima by Henry James)

• Cham-Cham and Mima are from the movie Perfect Blue

• Sprünt is from the TV series Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge

• Yōkai (monsters from Japanese legend)

• Hyakume (yōkai)

• Triffids (The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham)

• Voltan (Jack Palance, Hawk the Slayer)

• The Chatsubo Bar (Neuromancer by William Gibson)

• Dr. Jogoro Komoda (Tatsumi Hijikata, Horrors of Malformed Men)

• Merkwerdichliebe (Dr. Merkwürdigliebe, aka Dr. Strangelove; Peter Sellers, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)

• Kate Reed

• Geneviève Dieudonné

• The Macedonia (The Sea-Wolf by Jack London)

• Sunway Systems is from the movie Cypher 

• Syrie Van Epp (Elizabeth Shepherd, The Corridor People)

• Wings Over the World is from the movie Things to Come

• Groover’s is from the movie Au Pair Girls 

• Millarca is the title character of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”

• The Daikaiju Building is in the shape of Gojira, aka Godzilla 

• The Monk (vampire and early foe of Batman)

• Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi, Pulse)

• Ishikawa (Shutaro Ishikawa; Ken Ogata, My Soul Is Slashed)

• Karl the Chiropterid is meant to be Karl Fei-Ong from the anime Blood+

• John Blaylock (David Bowie, The Hunger)

• Mycroft Holmes

• Caleb Croft (Michael Pataki, Grave of the Vampire)

• Lord Ruthven (“The Vampyre” by John Polidori)

• Drearcliff Grange is from Newman's Drearcliff Grange School series

• Yuki-Onna (yōkai; also played by Keiko Kishi in the movie Kwaidan)

• Detective Yoshitaka Azuma is a combination of Detective Azuma from Violent Cop with Detective Yoshitaka Nishi from Hana-Bi, both played by Takeshi Kitano

• Jiiji the Pimp (Shinya Tsukamoto, Ichi the Killer)

• Captain Takeda (Shun Sugata, Confessions of a Dog)

• Tenjo Kudari (yōkai)

• Officer Kamikura (Ichigo Kamikura; Osamu Mukai, S: The Last Policeman)

• The Sakis are from the Sukeban Deka film series

• Urufu Inugami (Akira Inugami; Wolf Guy by Kazumasa Hirai and Hisashi Sakaguchi)

• Big Thinks is from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Tomorrow Town”

• WOTAN is from the Doctor Who serial “The War Machines”

• The General is from The Prisoner episode of the same name

• REMAK is from The Avengers episode “Killer”

• Gargantuabots are from Newman’s story “Gargantuabots vs. the Nice Mice”

• Erzulie Bronze is the daughter of Nefertiti Bronze from Newman’s contributions to The Lovecraft Squad mosaic novel series

• The Trenchcoat Twosome (the Trenchcoat Twins, played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley video series)

• The Bowmans is from the titular Hancock episode

• Six-tentacled octopus by the Golden Gate Bridge (It Came from Beneath the Sea)

• Giant ape above the Bullring (King Kong)

• Flimsy-winged reptile tethered in the Tivoli Gardens (Reptilicus)

• The vampire killed by electricity in the Arctic Circle in 1951 is a reference to the movie The Thing from Another World 

• Lefty is the titular appendage from The Outer Limits episode “Demon with a Glass Hand,” written by Harlan Ellison

• The Starship Protector, Dr. Lazarus, and Galaxy Quest are from the movie Galaxy Quest

• The Eyeheads are from Naoki Urasawa’s manga 20th Century Boys 

• Unwin-Fujikawa Chemicals is derived from Unwin Chemicals in Newman’s novel Bad Dreams 

• Mr. Horowitz, aka Mr. Horror and Iron Mouth (Jaws; Richard Kiel, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker; the character was based on Sol “Horror” Horowitz from Ian Fleming's original novel The Spy Who Loved Me)

• Dr. Kiyokazu Akiba (Kōichi Satō, Infection)

• General Gokemidoro is from the movie Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

• The Uchoten Hotel is from the movie of the same name, as are Tokiko (Keiko Toda) and Zenbu (Toshiyuki Nishida)

• Colonel Golgotha is the title character of Takao Saito's manga Golgo 13

• Derek (Peter Jackson, Bad Taste)

• O-Ren Blake, aka Cottonmouth, is a conflation of O-Ren “Cottonmouth” Ishii from Kill Bill: Vol. 1 with Sadie Blake from Rise: Blood Hunter; Lucy Liu played both characters

• Killer (Light “Kira” Yagami; Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata)

• Furīman (Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami)

• Panty-Mask (Ryôhei Suzuki, Hentai Kamen and Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis)

• Mikaeris, aka the Butler (Sebastian Michaelis; Black Butler by Yana Toboso)

• Kurokawa, aka Caterpillar (“The Caterpillar” by Edogawa Rampo)

• Mizuno, aka Astro-Man (Yoshio Tsuchiya, The Human Vapor)

• Hanjuro, the Black Ninja (David Chung, Ninja III: The Domination)

• Simon Molinar (Jason Carter, Demon Under Glass)

• Brilliant-Smith (Dick Tracy by Chester Gould)

• Dr. Septimus Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger, Bride of Frankenstein)

• Henry Jekyll (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)

• Senator John Blutarski (John Belushi, National Lampoon’s Animal House)

• Don Sebastian de Villanueva (vampire in novels by Les Daniels)

• Xochitl (Rosa Arenas, The Aztec Mummy, The Curse of the Aztec Mummy, and The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot)

• Mitsuru Fujiwara (Ghost Talker’s Daydream by Saki Okuse and Sankichi Meguro)

• The Opera Ghost Agency is from Newman’s Angels of Music

• The Unnameables are from Newman’s stories “The Big Fish” and “Moon Moon Moon”

• Germany’s Lohmann Branch is named after Inspector Karl Lohmann, played by Otto Wernicke in M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 

• Russia’s Night Watch (World of Watches series by Sergei Lukyanenko)

• Kogorō Akechi, the Boy Detectives Club, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, and the Black Lizard from Edogawa Rampo’s mystery novels

• Giant vampire turtle (Gamera)

• Kaname Kuran (Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino)

• Subaru Sumiyagi (Subaru Sumeragi; Tokyo Babylon by Clamp)

• Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda, Nightmare Detective and Nightmare Detective 2)

• Professor Brian O’Blivion (Jack Creley, Videodrome)

• Higo Yanagi (yōkai)

• Albert “Smiler” Watson is a conflation of the title character of the Sergeant Cork episode “The Case of Albert Watson, V.C.” with Smiler Washington from the TV movie Chips with Everything, both played by Ronald Lacey

• Kuchisake (yōkai)

• Rider Kuuga (Joe Odagiri, Kamen Rider Kuuga)

• Suzan Arashi is based on Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Girl, of the Marvel superteam the Fantastic Four

• Commander Hamish Bond (James Bond)

• Cousin Helen (Helen “Hallie” Takahama, aka Jolt, member of the Marvel superhero team the Thunderbolts)

• Tsunako Shiki (Sunako Kirishiki; Shiki by Fuyumi Ono)

• Cthulhu, Dagon, and Azathoth are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Mythos

• Lady Asaji Washizu (Isuzu Yamada) and Spider Forest are from the movie Throne of Blood

• Fray Sebastian and Kichijiro (Silence by Shūsaku Endō)

• O-Same (yōkai)

• Higanjima Island (Higanjima by Kōji Matsumoto)

• Heike Ziss is from Newman’s Drearcliff Grange School books

• Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich, We Are the Night)

• Callie (Callie Webb; Parker Posey, For Your Consideration)

• Jennifer Jolie (Parker Posey, Scream 3)

• The movie The Hobbs End Horror is based on Sutter Cane’s novel of the same name in the movie In the Mouth of Madness

• Derek Leech (recurring evil media mogul in Newman’s work)

• The Broken Doll and Carleton Knowles are from The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School

• Olof Carlsen (The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson)

• Louise Teazle is from Newman’s novel An English Ghost Story

• Anthony Peak is an alias for the title character of the manga Lupin the Third by Monkey Punch

• Andrew A. Thomason is based on Thomas A. Anderson, aka Neo, Keanu Reeves’ character in the movie The Matrix and its sequels

• The Niide Clinic is named after Dr. Kyojō Niide, Toshiro Mifune’s character in Red Beard

• Tetch (Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter, one of Batman’s foes)

• Middle-aged, sad-faced American actor and younger woman with pink-tinged hair (Bob Harris and Charlotte; Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation)

• Takashi Kamata, aka DK (Brian Tee, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift)

• Kageyama (Akira Kageyama; Hayato Ichihara, Yakuza Apocalypse)

• Sergeant Kankichi (Ryotsu Kankichi; Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto)

• Officer Ota (Isao Ota; Patlabor by Masami Yuki)

• Officer Brenten and the puma girls (Charles Brenten, AnnaPuma, and UniPuma; Dominion by Masamune Shirow)

• Officer Nakajima (Ken Nakajima; You’re Under Arrest by Kōsuke Fujishima)

• Lady Oyotsu (yōkai)

• Charles Strickland (The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham)

• Asato Yamamura is a combination of Ai Asato from Kochikame with Sadako Yamamura from the Ring novel series by Koji Suzuki

• Sophie Fukami is from the anime Kado: The Right Answer 

• Dessert is from the movie Suicide Club 

• The Bronx Warriors are from the movie 1990: The Bronx Warriors

• The Baseball Furies are from the movie The Warriors

• de Boscherville (Erik the Opera Ghost; The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux)

• Anck-es-en-Amon (Zita Johann, The Mummy)

• Petrox Oil is from the 1976 remake of King Kong 

• The North Sea Jennifer disaster refers to the movie North Sea Hijack

• Sonja Blaue (Sonja Blue, monster-hunting vampire in novels by Nancy A. Collins)

• Oily Maniac Hair Tonic is named after the movie Oily Maniac 

• The Moth (Mothra, Japanese movie monster)

• The Pterror (Rodan, another cinematic monster)

• The Tri-Kappa (King Ghidorah, still another Japanese cinema monster)

• The Ferat automobile company is from the Czech film Ferat Vampire 

• Rex Mifune is better known as Racer X from the anime Speed Racer 

• Furano, the Frankenstein Girl (Keiko Furano; Eri Otoguro, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl)

• Varanit Gorasu, the Indescribable Man, evokes the films Varan the Unbelievable and Gorath

• Aki Nijūhachi-gō is the title character of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira 

• Bokonism (Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut)

• Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday)

• Herbert von Krolock (Iain Quarrier, Dance of the Vampires)

• Lester Shortlion (Lestat de Lioncourt; The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice)

• Angel de la Guardia (Ron Perlman, Cronos)

• Georgia Rae Drumgo, a conflation of Georgia Rae Mahoney from the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and Evelda Drumgo from the movie Hannibal, both played by Hazellle Goodman 

• Abura Sumashi (yōkai)

• Kasa-obake (yōkai)

• Perkin Murdleigh is based on Muttley from the cartoon Wacky Races 

• Mr. Omochi (Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb)

• Chesse Beru (Chesse Belle; Seraph of the End by Takaya Kagami and Yamato Yamamoto)

• Tsukamoto is meant to be the unnamed metal fetishist played by Shinya Tsukamoto in his film Tetsuo: The Iron Man

• The predator vampire that permanently shapeshifted into a lift in Amsterdam in the 1980s is a reference to the Dutch film De Lift

• Count Oblensky (Waldemar Wohlfahrt, The Horrible Sexy Vampire)

• Kah Pai Mei is a conflation of Kah from the movie The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires with Pai Mei from Chinese legend and film

• Sesshō Seki (yōkai)

• General Ichimonji (Hidetora Ichimonji; Tatsuya Nakadai, Ran)

• Mowgli of Seoni (The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling)

• The Blue Water Pendant is from the anime Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water; the Nemo Collection refers to Captain Nemo, who besides being from Jules Verne’s novels also appears in that series

• Munch’s Lady of the Shroud is named after Bram Stoker’s novel

• The Mausoleum is from Newman’s “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch”

• Wingman Paul Metcalf is better known as Captain Scarlet from the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons; the Seraphs are based on the Angels from that series

• Wing Navigator Hayata (Shin Hayata; Susumu Kurobe, Ultraman)

• Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon, Shock Treatment [1973 film])

• Drusilla Zark (Juliet Landau, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; the surname is derived from Juliet’s father Martin Landau’s villain in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode “The Bat Cave Affair”) 

• The Silver Sentinel is based on Klaatu’s flying saucer in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still 

• The EvangeLions are named after the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Wing Captain Gardner (Grant Gardner, aka Captain America; Dick Purcell, Captain America [1943 serial])

• The Loren Mansion is from the movie House on Haunted Hill 

• Kostaki (“The Pale-Faced Lady” by Alexandre Dumas)

• The Daughter of the Dragon (Fah Lo Suee, Dr. Fu Manchu’s daughter)

• The Ska-tastics are from the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode “Dance of the Undead”

• Skerra Island is from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Swellhead”

• An attractive archaeologist (Lara Croft, Tomb Raider)

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert’s Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Anno Dracula

 

Are you a fan of Kim Newman's alternate history vampire series Anno Dracula?

Then you'll love these additions to that series, which will be covered in an appendix entitled "The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide" in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded Vol. 3, to be published by Meteor House!

Crossover of the Week

Today marks my 700th post on this blog. Thanks to everyone who follows this site. In honor, of this occasion, I am doing something a little different for the Crossover of the Week. Instead of sharing a write-up from the main timeline, I am going to provide an excerpt from one of the addendums, "The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide."

Anno Dracula 1968: Aquarius (in Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Titan Books, 2012)

• Kate Reed
• Kôr (kingdom ruled by Ayesha, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed, in novels by H. Rider Haggard)
• Jerusalem’s Lot (’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King)
• Gamma Bomb (source of Dr. Bruce Banner’s transformation into the Hulk in stories published by Marvel Comics)
• Bali Ha’i (Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener, adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as the musical South Pacific)
• Frank Mills is the title character of a song in the stage musical and film Hair
• Algernon Ford (The Reverend Alexander Algernon Ford; Gavin Reed, The Body Beneath)
• Horatio Stubbs is featured in a trilogy of novels by Brian Aldiss
• Seaton Begg is Michael Moorcock’s alternate reality counterpart to Sexton Blake
• Compact magazine is from the British soap opera Compact
• Bikini Girl magazine is from the film The Night Caller
• Wow Magazine is from the film Cover Girl Killer
• Fred Regent (Richard Jeperson’s policeman sidekick in Newman’s Diogenes Club stories)
• Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard; Graham is a fictionalized version of Ballard himself)
• B Division and Pickering are from R. Chetwynd-Hayes’ book The Monster Club
• Herrick (William Herrick; Jason Watkins, Being Human)
• The Diogenes Club
• Detective Superintendent Bellaver, Detective Sergeant Griffin, and Keith Kenneth (Alfred Marks, Julian Holloway, and Michael Gothard, Scream and Scream Again)
• Premier Torgu (Ion Torgu; Fangland by John Marks)
• Lord Ruthven
• Lorrimer Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula)
• Abraham Van Helsing
• Morgan Delt (David Warner, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment)
• Nezumi first appeared in "Anno Dracula 1923: Vampire Romance"
• Arthur Bryant and John May are members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit in novels by Christopher Fowler
• Mycroft Holmes
• Richard Jeperson
• Donna Rogers (Anna Massey) and the Midnight Mess restaurant are from the film The Vault of Horror
• Geoff Brent (Geoffrey Brent; Ian Hendry, Police Surgeon)
• The Crimson Executioner (Mickey Hargitay, Bloody Pit of Horror)
• Carol Thatcher (Janet Lynn, Cool It Carol!)
• Geneviève Dieudonné
• Waldo Zhernikov (Herbert Lom, The Frightened City)
• Hogarth, aka Big Bloodsucker Hog (Peter Egan, Big Breadwinner Hog)
• The Living Dead motorcycle gang is from the film Psychomania
• Inspector Hornleigh (protagonist of a 1930s radio show)
• George Dixon (Jack Warner, The Blue Lamp and Dixon of Dock Green)
• Jack Regan (John Thaw, The Sweeney)
• Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Confessions of a Pop Performer, Confessions of a Driving Instructor, and Confessions of a Summer Camp Councillor; Askwith also played Joe Sickles in Cool It Carol!)
• Peter Steiger (Ralph Arliss, Blood Relations)
• University of Watermouth (The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury)
• St. Bartolph’s and Laura Bellows (Caroline Munro) are from Dracula A.D. 1972
• Walter Goodrich and Doctor Holstrom (Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward, Incense for the Damned)
• Caleb Croft and James Eastman (Michael Pataki and William Smith, Grave of the Vampire)
• Professor Bowles-Ottery (Leo McKern, A Jolly Bad Fellow)
• E. B. Fern is a science fiction author played by Harold Kasket in "Amazing Stories," an episode of the British television anthology Red Letter Day
• Tom Choley was played by Paul Angelis in a six-part adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel A Dog’s Ransom on the anthology series Armchair Thriller
• The Winchester is from the movie Shaun of the Dead
• Neville Hetherington (Robert Crewdson, Her Private Hell)
• Sybil Waite (Patricia Haines, Virgin Witch)
• Sixth Form Girls in Chains, Zarana and Lady Celia (Lady Celia Asquith-Leaves) are from Newman’s story "Soho Golem"
• The Science of Sex is from the movie Deep End
• Bathtime with Brenda is from the movie Terror
• Thomas Nolan is David Hemmings’ character from the film Blow-Up (Newman provided him with his surname, which is the same as that of Hemmings’ character in The Charge of the Light Brigade; Hemmings named one of his sons Nolan in honor of that role)
• Lucy Westenra
• Sir John Rowan (Peter Cushing, Corruption)
• Baron Meinster (David Peel, The Brides of Dracula)
• Clive Landseer (Alexis Kanner, Goodbye Gemini; the "white-blonde male and female twins who 'came together'" are Julian and Jacki Dewar, played by Martin Potter and Judy Geeson)
• Syrie Van Epp (Elizabeth Shepherd, The Corridor People)
• The Fevre Dream is from George R. R. Martin’s vampire novel of the same name
• Sebastian Newcastle (Don Sebastian de Villanueva, from vampire novels by Les Daniels)
• Herbert von Krolock and Professor Abronsius (Iain Quarrier and Jack MacGowran, Dance of the Vampires aka The Fearless Vampire Killers)
• Mrs. Michaela Cazaret and Tom Lynn (Ava Gardner and Ian McShane, The Ballad of Tam Lin)
• Paul Durward (Shane Briant, Captain Kronos–Vampire Hunter)
• Canon Copely-Syle (To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley)
• Emir Abdulla Akaba was played by Henry Soskin in the "Death a la Carte" episode of The Avengers
• Plainview Oil is a reference to the film There Will Be Blood
• Berkeley-Willoughby (Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby, The Adventures of PC 49 radio series)
• Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas, Two Weeks in Another Town)
• Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff, Targets; his role of Clayface is meant to evoke Basil Karlo, the first of several Batman foes to use the name Clayface, who modeled his masked persona after the character he played in the horror film The Terror, which is also the name of Byron Orlok’s last film)
• Countess Addhema (The Vampire Countess by Paul Féval)
• Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp, Spirits of the Dead)
• The Daughter of the Dragon (Fah Lo Suee, daughter of Fu Manchu; her alias of Lin Tang is the name given to Fu’s daughter in the Harry Alan Towers-produced films in the late ‘60s, in which she was portrayed by Tsai Chin, while her role as Thomas Nolan’s personal assistant is a reference to Chin’s appearance as Thomas’ unnamed receptionist in Blow-Up)
• The Lord of Strange Deaths (Fu Manchu)
• Barbara von Weidenborn (Evelyne Kraft, Lady Dracula; her pseudonym Barbarushka is a reference to 1960s fashion model Veruschka, who appeared as a fictionalized version of herself in Blow-Up)
• Edwina (Edwina Lionheart; Diana Rigg, Theatre of Blood)
• Marcus Monserrat and Mrs. Monserrat (Boris Karloff and Catherine Lacey, The Sorcerers)
• Hugh Conway and Shangri-La (Lost Horizon by James Hilton)
• Shambhala is from Tibetan and Indian Buddhist mythology
• K’un-L’un is the adopted home of the Marvel Comics hero Iron Fist
• Kent Allard
• "The secret of killing via shouting" is a reference to the film The Shout
• Catherine Cornelius is the sister of Michael Moorcock’s adventurer and secret agent Jerry Cornelius
• Moira Kent ("The Dancing Life of Moira Kent," strip in the British comic Bunty)
• Fontaine Khaled (The Stud and The Bitch by Jackie Collins)
• Sir Billy Langly was played by Kevin Brennan in "The Human Time Bomb," an episode of the television series Doomwatch
• The Steel Claw is a British comics character
• Vanessa is Richard Jeperson’s lovely companion
• Charles Beauregard
• Danny Dravot
• Whitney is Whitney Gauge from Newman’s "Moon Moon Moon"
• Maureen is Maureen Mountmain from Newman’s "Seven Stars"
• Louise-Ésperance is Madame Louise Ésperance "Mama-Lou" d’Ailly-Guin from Newman’s "The Serial Murders," which is also the source of Corri (Professor Barbara Corri) and The Northern Barstows
• Quelou is Mademoiselle Quelou from Newman’s Doctor Who novel Time and Relative
• CI5 is from the British television series The Professionals
• WOOC(P) (The Ipcress File by Len Deighton)
• The Circus is from the George Smiley novels by John le Carré
• Universal Exports is the front for the British Secret Service in the James Bond novels
• The Section is from the TV series Callan; David Callan’s boss is known as Colonel Hunter
• Sandbaggers are a reference to the British spy TV series The Sandbaggers
• Scalphunters are a reference to le Carré’s Smiley novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Edwin Winthrop
• Mildew Manor is from Kim Newman’s story of the same name
• James Manfred, O.B.E. (James Cossins, Raw Meat aka Deathline)
• The Department of Administrative Affairs is from the British sitcom Yes Minister
• Nicholas Dyer (Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd)
• Professor Elwyn Clayton (George Zucco, Dead Men Walk)
• Faber College is from the film National Lampoon’s Animal House
• Santonix (Rudolf Santonix; Endless Night by Agatha Christie)
• Harry Paget Flashman
• Horatio Hornblower
• George Edward Challenger
• Sir Francis Varney
• Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall, Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream)
• Dru is Drusilla (Juliet Landau) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Ricky Strange (Steve Patterson) and Groover’s are from the film Au Pair Girls
• Mina Harker
• Kostaki ("The Pale Lady" by Alexandre Dumas)
• Styles, the Haymarket Strangler (Edward Styles; Michael Atkinson, Grip of the Strangler)
• Constable Thackeray is from the Inspector Cribb novels by Peter Lovesey
• Eric DeBoys was played by Patrick Mower in The Avengers episode "A Sense of History"
• Cathy Castel and Pony Tricot are meant to be the vampires played by Catherine and Marie-Pierre Castel in several films directed by Jean Rollin; "Pony Tricot" is one of Marie-Pierre’s stage names.
• Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Miss Brabazon (Sheila Keith, House of Mortal Sin)
• Scrawdyke (Malcolm Scrawdyke; John Hurt, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs)
• Withnail (Richard E. Grant, Withnail & I)
• Moïse King is a combination of Moise from the film The Party’s Over and King from the film These Are the Damned; both roles were played by Oliver Reed
• Simon Armstrong (The Feast of the Wolf by Thomas Blackburn)
• Anna Franklyn (Jacqueline Pearce, The Reptile; Pearce also played Marianne Gray in "A Sense of History")
• Fran (Marianne Morris, Vampyres)
• Roquentin (Antoine Roquentin; Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Elizabeth Bathory
• Hesselius (Dr. Martin Hesselius, In A Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan LeFanu)
• "The vanishing police box" is the Doctor’s TARDIS from Doctor Who
• The Mother of Tears is from Dario Argento’s film trilogy consisting of Suspiria, Inferno, and Mother of Tears
• Carmilla
• Edward Langdon, MP (Lennard Pearce, Face of Darkness)
• Dr. John Hardy (Marius Goring, The Expert)
• Lionel St. Dubois (Lorenzo "L. S. D." St. Dubois; Dick Shawn, The Producers)
• Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern, Rumpole of the Bailey)
• Joe Hawkins is the protagonist of the Skinhead novels by "Richard Allen," a pen name for James Moffat
• Adam Cochran (Dracula and the Virgins of the Undead by "Etienne Aubin," also a Moffat pseudonym)
• Reginald Bird (Ronald "Budgie" Bird; Adam Faith, Budgie)
• Peter Craven (Malcolm McFee, Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang)
• Fullalove of the Gazette (James Fullalove; Paul Whitsun-Jones, The Quatermass Experiment; Brian Worth, Quatermass and the Pit)
• Stenning of the Express (Peter Stenning; Edward Judd, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
• DCI Charlie Barlow (Stratford Johns) and New Town are from the TV series Z Cars and its many spin-offs
• Sergeant Lynch (James Ellis, Z Cars)
• Jasper Lakin was played by John Laurie in The Avengers episode "Brief for Murder"
• Perryman (Det. Sgt. Perryman; Michael McStay, No Hiding Place)
• North (Det. Sgt. Bill North; Roger Rowland, Special Branch)
• The Bowmans, from the titular episode of the British sitcom Hancock, is a parody of the radio soap opera The Archers
• Sister George is from the play and film The Killing of Sister George
• Jessica Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham, Dracula A.D. 1972; Joanna Lumley, The Satanic Rites of Dracula)
• Marcus Obadiah (The Dead Travel Fast by Richard Tate)
• Kingstead Cemetery is from Dracula
• The India-Rubber Men are from Edgar Wallace’s novel of the same name
• Graf von Orlok (Max Schreck, Nosferatu)
• John Blaylock (David Bowie, The Hunger)
• Orlon Kronsteen (They Thirst and "Makeup" by Robert McCammon)
• Mavis Weld (The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler)
• Biff Bailey (Roy Castle, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors)
• Marcel DeLange (Martin Kosleck, House of Horrors [no relation to the above])
• The Gorilla of Soho is from the 1968 German film of the same name
• Renfield
• St. Swithin’s and Michael Upton (Barry Evans) are from the television series Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large