The Bloody Red Baron (1995)

Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron, or simply The Bloody Red Baron, is a 1995 alternate history/horror novel by British author Kim Newman. It is the second book in the Anno Dracula series and takes place during the Great War, 30 years after the first novel.

Plot

The book takes place during World War I and explores the Diogenes Club's efforts to investigate Germany's attempt to make powerful, undead fliers. Leading the German operations are the likes of Rotwang, Doctor Caligari and Doctor Mabuse. One of their more successful efforts is an undead flier known as the Red Baron. The story also features Edgar Allan Poe as a vampire writer assigned to ghostwrite the Red Baron's autobiography.

Setting

The book is set in an alternate history universe in which Professor Van Helsing failed in his efforts to kill Count Dracula. This resulted in a vampire proliferation across the world. The book combines a large number of historical and fictional characters, as did its predecessor, Anno Dracula, and pays tribute to a great many World War I movies and novels.

Characters

The novel features numerous characters from other media, including TV and movies, as well as published novels and short stories. Some are directly named, while others are described. The following list is far from complete.

Fictional references

Count Dracula — Dracula by Bram Stoker

Brides of Dracula — Dracula by Bram Stoker

Paul Bäumer — All Quiet on the Western Front, anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque

Doctor Caligari — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) film

Baron von Emmelman — Comic book character The Heap

Hammer - Comic book character Enemy Ace

Hardt - The Spy in Black (1939) film

General Karnstein — Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Doctor Mabuse - Norbert Jacques' literary works

Baron Meinster — The Brides of Dracula (1960) film

Doctor Orlof - The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) film

Count Orlok - Nosferatu (1922) film

Hjalmar Poelzig — From the 1934 film The Black Cat

Robur — Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne

Rotwang - Metropolis (1927) film

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff — From the film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Bruno Stachel - The Blue Max (1966) film

Erich von Stalhein — Biggles series by W. E. Johns

Professor Jakob Ten Brincken — Alraune (1911) novel

Armand Tesla - The Return of the Vampire (1943) film

Lemora - Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1971) film

Faustine - Algernon Charles Swinburne published a poem of the same name

Gregory von Bayern -- The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

Chateau du Malinbois - Stories of vampire-haunted Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith

Renamed Schloß Adler (The Castle of the Eagles) - Where Eagles Dare (1968) film

Doktor Krueger - recurring villain of G8 and His Battle Aces, first appearing in The Bat Staffel (1933)

Historic figures

Oswald Boelcke

Hanns Heinz Ewers

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Joseph I

Anthony Fokker

Erich von Falkenhayn

Hermann Göring

Fritz Haarmann

Mata Hari

Paul von Hindenburg

Adolf Hitler

Max Immelmann

Franz Kafka

Peter Kürten

Béla Lugosi

Erich Ludendorff

Helmuth von Moltke

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Edgar Allan Poe

Willi Sanke

Peter Strasser

Ernst Udet

Manfred von Richthofen

Lothar von Richthofen

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

Wilhelm II

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Fictional

"Red" Albright - Captain Midnight radio show

Kent Allard - The Shadow series by Walter B. Gibson

James "Jim" Apperson - From the 1925 film The Big Parade

Doctor Arrowsmith - Arrowsmith, novel by Sinclair Lewis

Ashenden - Ashenden: Or the British Agent, novel by W. Somerset Maugham

Jake Barnes - The Sun Also Rises, novel by Ernest Hemingway

Eddie Bartlett - The Roaring Twenties film

James Bigglesworth - From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns

Lady Jennifer Buckingham - Doctor Who serial The War Games

Jerry Dandridge - Fright Night film

Clifford Chatterley - Lady Chatterley's Lover, novel by D. H. Lawrence

Caleb Croft - Grave of the Vampire (or "Seed of Terror") film

Courtney - The Dawn Patrol (1938 film) (played by Errol Flynn, hence the Antipodean accent and Tasmanian origin)

Tom Cundall, Bill Williamson - Winged Victory, novel by Victor Maslin Yeates

Sergeant Dravot - The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

Bulldog Drummond - the works of H. C. McNeile

Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle - the Bertie Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse.

James Gatz (Jay Gatsby) - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Private Charles Godfrey - From the TV series Dad's Army (referred to as "the Quaker stretcher-bearer, Godfrey")

Mina Harker - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Ginger Hebblethwaite - From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns

Mycroft Holmes - From the works of Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes - From the works of Arthur Conan Doyle

Nick Knight - From the TV series Forever Knight

Kostaki - From The Pale Lady by Alexandre Dumas, père

Algernon "Algy" Lacey - From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns

Bertie Lissie - From the Biggles series by W. E. Johns; an upper-class character who wears a monocle, utters clichéd expressions, and bears some resemblance to P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster.

Cary Lockwood - From the 1931 film, The Last Flight (played by Richard Barthelmess, who played Courtney in the original 1930 film The Dawn Patrol).

Lt. Col. Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair - One of Doc Savage's five assistants

General Mireau, Colonel Dax - From the movie Paths of Glory

Doctor Moreau - From the novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Ouran- From the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls

Roger Penderel - From the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley

Kate Reed - A character from Dracula who was cut from the final novel

Lord Ruthven - From the short story The Vampyre by Dr. John William Polidori

Severin - From the film Near Dark

George Sherston - From the Sherston trilogy by Siegfried Sassoon

Count Sinestre - From the film Devils of Darkness

Captain Elliot Spencer - The original identity of Pinhead from the movie Hellraiser

Simon Templar - From The Saint novels and TV series.

Tietjens - Probably Christopher Tietjens from "Parade's End" by Ford Maddox Ford

Dr. Thorndyke - From the novels of R. Austin Freeman

Isolde - From the French film, "Le frisson des vampires"