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A note which can stand for the whole
Anno Dracula
series is that though many of the characters bear the names of real people or made-up people from other works of fiction, they exist only within this alternate time-line, at least two removes away from actual history or their primary fictional stamping grounds. I should like sincerely to thank all the hard-working authors, actors, directors, screenwriters, artists and even musicians - sadly, a legion too vast to be name-checked here - who have established the many people who populate the
Anno Dracula
universe, and hope that they will recognise that any co-opting has been done in the spirit of homage rather than assault. The same goes for any real people, public figures and private, represented here in a fictional context. My apologies to people whose work in the real world has had to be wiped out to make room for the alternate history of
Johnny Alucard,
especially the directors F.W. Murnau, Tod Browning, Terence Fisher, Paul Morrissey and John Badham and the actors Max Schreck, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella, Gary Oldman and Udo Kier.

K
im Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes
The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago,
the
Anno Dracula
novels and stories,
The Quorum
and
Life’s Lottery,
all currently being reissued by Titan Books,
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles
published by Titan Books and
The Vampire Genevieve
and
Orgy of the Blood Parasites
as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include the seminal
Nightmare Movies
(recently reissued by Bloomsbury in an updated edition),
Ghastly Beyond Belief
(with Neil Gaiman),
Horror: 100 Best Books
(with Stephen Jones),
Wild West Movies
,
The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies
and BFI Classics studies of
Cat People
and
Doctor Who
.

He is a contributing editor to
Sight & Sound
and
Empire
magazines (writing
Empire
’s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely on a range of topics, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories ‘Week Woman’ and ‘Ubermensch’ have been adapted into an episode of the TV series
The Hunger
and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film
Missing Girl
. Following his Radio 4 play ‘Cry Babies’, he wrote an episode (‘Phish Phood’) for Radio 7’s series
The Man in Black.

His official website can be found at
www.johnnyalucard.com