The Bloody Red Baron

The Bloody Red Baron
Author	Kim Newman
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Anno Dracula series
Genre(s)	Alternate History, Horror
Publication date	1995
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	358 (hardcover)
ISBN	0-7867-0252-4
OCLC Number	33269558
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Classification	PR6064.E9277 B57 1995
Preceded by	Anno Dracula
Followed by	Dracula Cha Cha Cha

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The Bloody Red Baron is a 1995 novel by British author Kim Newman. It is the second book in the Anno Dracula series and takes place thirty years after the former.

1 Plot
2 Setting
3 Characters
4 References
5 External links

Plot

The book takes place during World War I, and centers around the Diogenes Club's efforts to investigate Germany's attempt to make powerful, undead fliers. Heading up the German operations are the likes of Rotwang, Doctor Caligari and Doctor Mabuse. One of their more successful efforts is an undead flier known as the Red Baron. The story also features Edgar Allan Poe as a vampire writer assigned to ghost write the Red Baron's autobiography.

Setting

The book is set in an alternate history universe where Professor Van Helsing failed in his efforts to kill Count Dracula, leading to a vampire renaissance across the world. The book combines a large number of historical and fictional characters, as did its predecessor, Anno Dracula and pays tribute to a great many World War One movies and novels.

Characters

The novel features a great many characters from other media, including TV and movies, as well as novels and short stories; some are directly named, while others are merely described. The following list is far from complete.

Central Powers

Fictional

Count Dracula - From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Brides of Dracula - From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Paul Bäumer — From All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Doctor Caligari — From the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Baron von Emmelman — The original identity of comic book character The Heap
General Karnstein — From Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Doctor Mabuse - From the works of Norbert Jacques
Count Orlok - From the 1922 film Nosferatu
Hjalmar Poelzig — From the 1934 film The Black Cat
Robur — From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
Rotwang - From the film Metropolis
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff — From the film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Erich von Stalhein — From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns
Professor Jakob Ten Brincken — From the 1911 novel Alraune
Lemora - From the 1975 film, "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural"
Wynn-Candy - From the film, "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"
Faustine - Probably the character from the Algernon Charles Swinburne poem of the same name
Wilson - From the Biggles series of books

Chateau du Malinbois - From the stories of vampire-haunted Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
- Later renamed Schloß Adler (The Castle of the Eagles) from the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare

Real

Allies

Fictional

"Red" Albright - From the Captain Midnight radio show
Kent Allard - From The Shadow series by Walter B. Gibson
Doctor Arrowsmith - From the novel Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
John Ashenden - From the novel Ashenden or: the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham
Jake Barnes — From The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Eddie Bartlett — From the movie The Roaring Twenties
James Bigglesworth — From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns
Jerry Dandridge — From the film Fright Night
Ginger Hebblethwaite — From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns
Algernon "Algy" Lacey — From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns
Bertie Lissie — From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns; an upper-class character who wears a monocle, utters clichéd expressions, and bears some resemblance to P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster.
Lady Jennifer Buckingham — From the Doctor Who serial The War Games
Clifford Chatterley — From the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Tom Cundall — From the novel Winged Victory by Victor Maslin Yeates
Sergeant Dravot - From The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
Bulldog Drummond - From the works of H. C. McNeile
Harry Paget Flashman - From the works of George MacDonald Fraser
James Gatz (Jay Gatsby) - From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Private Charles Godfrey - From the TV series Dad's Army
Mina Harker - From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Mycroft Holmes - From the works of Arthur Conan Doyle
Nick Knight - From the TV series Forever Knight
Kostaki — From The Pale Lady by Alexandre Dumas, père
General Mireau — From the movie Paths of Glory
Doctor Moreau - From the novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Colonel Nicholson — From the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai
Kate Reed — A character from Dracula who was cut from the final novel
Lord Ruthven - From the short story The Vampyre by Dr. John William Polidori
Severin — From the film Near Dark
Captain Elliot Spencer — The original identity of Pinhead from the movie Hellraiser
Simon Templar - From The Saint novels and TV series.
Dr Thorndyke - From the novels of R Austin Freeman
Herbert West - From the short story "Herbert West—Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey — From the Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (referred to as "the second son of the Duke of Denver")
Lt. Col. Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair - One of Doc Savage's five assistants
Mansfield Smith-Cumming - From R. H. Bruce Lockhart's "Sidney Reilly: Ace of Spies"
Lord Peter Wimsey - From the series of novels by Dorothy L. Sayers
Caleb Croft - From the film, "Grave of the Vampire" (or "Seed of Terror")
Courtney - From the film, "The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)"
Cary Lockwood - From the 1931 film, "The Last Flight"
Isolde - From the French film, "Le frisson des vampires"
Jedediah Leland - From Orson Welles's Citizen Kane

Real

Non-aligned

Fictional

Fantômas - From the works of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Jules and Jim — From the movie Jules and Jim
Oliver Mellors — From the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover
Charles Plumpick — From the 1966 film King of Hearts
Snoopy - From Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz^[1]
Švejk — From The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Langstrom of Gotham University/Man-Bat - Robert Kirkland (Kirk) Langstrom of DC Comics'Batman fame; an anachronism of course
Jacques Lantier - From Emile Zola's novel "La Bête Humaine"
Des Esseintes - From "A Rebours" by J-K. Huysmans
Sadie Thompson - From the eponymous 1928 film
Lola-Lola - From the 1930 German film, "The Blue Angel"
Gigi - From the French novel by Colette, "Gigi"
Jiggs - From the 1958 American film, "The Tarnished Angels"
Judex - From the 1912 silent French serial

Real

Vladimir Lenin

References

^ Bleiler, Richard (2003). Supernatural Fiction Writers: Guy Gavriel Kay to Roger Zelazny. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 762.

Heldreth, Leonard G.; Mary Pharr (1999). The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature. Popular Press. pp. 184–186. ISBN 0879728035 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].

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