The Nightmare Factory Discusses The Bloody Red Baron

Good evening, intrepid engineers of evil.  It is time once again to dim your gas lamps, brighten your jack-o-lanterns, put another cube of dry ice into your novelty cauldron, and set your pipe organs to “atonal” because the Nightmare Factory is meeting in a few short days to discuss the frightening, flying ferocity that is Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron.

This latest re-release from Titan Books picks up thirty years after the terrifying conclusion of Anno Dracula, wherein Count Dracula has been banished from England after having overseen the destruction of warm-blooded Britannia at the hands of his vampiric acolytes and an undead Queen Elizabeth.  We are thrust into a world where, through manipulation of alliances and ancient bloodlines, the Prince of the Undead sits on the Prussian throne in the midst of World War One, vanquishing all who would defy his death-rite as vicious commander of all civilized nations.  The Diogenes Club, a secret society that pulls the world’s strings from behind closed doors, is all that stands in the way of Vlad Dracula’s complete domination, and, in the age of man-powered flight, the battlefield is naturally (or unnaturally) airborne.  This horrendous romp pits an undead Red Baron against an ace flier who exists in a state between life and death.  Snoopy should keep his guard up.  The Great Pumpkin has nothing on The Bloody Red Baron.

Join us on the third floor on Tuesday June 19th at 7:00 p.m. for a discussion, a debate, a debauch, or just to practice saying “blah” like Dracula.  BookPeople will not be held responsible if you get so scared that your skeleton jumps out of your body.