The Bloody Red Baron is a 1995 science fiction 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.
The book takes place during World War I. It explores the Diogenes Club's efforts to investigate Germany's attempt to make powerful, undead fliers. Heading up 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 ghost write the Red Baron's autobiography.
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.
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.
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
General Karnstein — Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Doctor Mabuse - Norbert Jacques' literary works
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
Erich von Stalhein — Biggles series by W. E. Johns
Professor Jakob Ten Brincken — Alraune (1911) novel
Lemora - Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1971) film
Faustine - Algernon Charles Swinburne published a poem of the same name
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
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Joseph I of Austria
Anthony Fokker
Hermann Göring
Fritz Haarmann
Mata Hari
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
Franz Kafka
Peter Kürten
Béla Lugosi
Erich Ludendorff
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Edgar Allan Poe
Manfred von Richthofen
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Winston Churchill
"Red" Albright - Captain Midnight radio show
Kent Allard - The Shadow series by Walter B. Gibson
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 (1930 film)
Tom Cundall — 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
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
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
Lt. Col. Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair - One of Doc Savage's five assistants
General Mireau — From the movie Paths of Glory
Doctor Moreau - From the novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
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
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"
Jedediah Leland - From Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
Herbert West - From the short story "Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
Lord Peter Wimsey - From the Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy L. Sayers (referred to as "the second son of the Duke of Denver")
Wilson - From the Biggles series of books
Clive Wynne-Candy - From the film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
H. H. Asquith
Albert Ball
Winston Churchill
Arthur Rhys Davids
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
David Lloyd George
Oswald Mosley
Nicholas II of Russia
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Charles Nungesser
John J. Pershing
Philippe Pétain
Rasputin
William Robertson
Mansfield Smith-Cumming
J. R. R. Tolkien
King Victor of Britain
H. G. Wells
Henry Hughes Wilson
Fantômas - From the works of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Jules and Jim — From the movie Jules and Jim
Perle von Mauren — From Carl Jacobi's Revelations in Black
Oliver Mellors — From the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover
Charles Plumpick — From the 1966 film King of Hearts
Snoopy - From Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
Švejk — From The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Langstrom of Gotham University/Man-Bat - Robert Kirkland (Kirk) Langstrom of DC Comics'Batman fame; an anachronism of course
Jacques Lantier - From Émile Zola's novel La Bête humaine
Des Esseintes - From A rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Sadie Thompson - From the eponymous 1928 film
Lola-Lola - From the 1930 German film, The Blue Angel
Gigi - From the French novella Gigi by Colette
Jiggs - From the 1958 American film, The Tarnished Angels
Judex - From the 1912 silent French serial
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