![]() ![]() He’s influenced by Bryan Talbot’s precision, but that’s no bad thing, and as the right hand sample page shows, he can turn his hand to a tidy version of Richard Corben also. ![]() He’ll apply the same attention to detail whether showing the foreign fleet destroyed, a bunch of people talking around a table, or, more stomach-churningly, suspects being tortured in the Tower of London. He creates a believable Victorian world complete with period dress and fittings, and populates it with easily distinguished people, some terrifying in their vampire forms. Quite an amount of background needs to be explained, but thanks to McCaffrey’s art that’s a painless procedure. That looks very unlikely at the start, Paul McCaffrey’s art showing the fate of a joint military union between France, Germany and the USA. ![]() Journalist, vampire and secret society member Kate Reed takes the main role here, part of an organisation plotting Dracula’s overthrow. The novels cleverly filter in other classic horror and mystery characters, although Dracula himself appears only sparingly, and the lead characters are Newman’s own creations. The novels zip through time, but here he’s Prince Consort in Victorian England, where becoming a vampire is now considered a form of social advancement. Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem is an extension of Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula horror novels, but an original story in a world where the efforts of the people who stopped Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel came to nothing. ![]()
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