Red Jacks Wild follows Jack the Ripper whose life is extended with ritualistic sacrifices to Hecate. The Chill Clutch of the Unseen sees the last monster hunter and the last monster (the invisible man) meet – with a memory of a vampiric attack touched on. An unusual zombie apocalypse story that name checks wurdalaks and vrykolakas. The story Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue was probably my favourite in the volume. Wells’ War of the Worlds (1898), which itself is a book concerned with alien vampires as our blood is their sustenance. When I say Martian I mean, of course, those of H.G. The first story is Famous Monsters and follows the fortune of a Martian (ethnicity, it was birthed in the USA) actor in Hollywood. Some of the stories also touched on vampire themes occasionally. It was actually fun to step out of that world and into other worlds created in Kim Newman’s fertile (and genre geek heavy) imagination.
That was the last tale Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899, which in itself is a teaser of a new Anno Dracula novel due later in 2017. This was a 2017 release by Kim Newman and is a collection of multi-world stories, mostly taking the Anno Dracula premise of adapting a film or book into an alternate world, but only the last story being part of the Anno Dracula series.
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