Jan 7, 2009
Anno Dracula merges nineteenth century history and literary fiction in such a way as to blur the distinctions between them. Chapter 1, “In the Fog,” opens with Dr. Jack Seward of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) recording on a phonograph cylinder, as was his habit in that novel, a murder he has just committed. His narrative clearly identifies him as the historical Jack the Ripper. As the novel begins, Stoker’s famous vampire nemesis, Dr. Van Helsing, has his head on a pike on the London bridge, and Arthur Holmwood (one of Lucy Westenra’s stalwart...
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