AUTHOR'S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Sections of this novel have appeared, in slightly different form, disguised as novellas. Thanks are due to editors Stephen Jones ('Coppola's Dracula'), Pete Crowther ('Andy Warhol's Dracula'), Marvin Kaye ('The Other Side of Midnight'), Ellen Datlow ('Castle in the Desert') and Paula Guran ('You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings'). Others who rate a credit include Pete and Dana Atkins, Nicolas Barbano, Anne Billson, Sebastian Born, Randy and Sara Broecker, Kat Brown, Eugene Byrne, Susan Byrne, Pat Cadigan, Sophie Calder, Loretta Culbert, Les Daniels, Fay Davies, Alex Dunn, all at Empire, Dennis (aka Jack Martin) and Kris Etchison, Martin Feeney, Leslie Felperin, Larry Fessenden, Jo Fletcher, Martin Fletcher, Barry Forshaw, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Gaye, the late Charlie Grant, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Antony Harwood, Jennifer Handorf, Georgina Hawtrey-Woore, Sean Hogan, Alan Jones, Yung Kha, Jonathan Kinnersley, Nick and Vivian Landau, James Macdonald Lockhart, Donna and Tim Lucas, Paul McAuley, Maitland McDonagh, Maura McHugh, Glenn McQuaid, Helen Mullane, the NECON 99 crew, Julia and Bryan Newman, Sasha and Jerome Newman, Marcelle Perks, Sarah Pinborough, David Pirie, David Pringle, Robert Rimmer, Silja Semple, Adam Simon (the real one, not the character in The Player), Helen Simpson, Russell Schechter, David Schow (who took us to Bronson Canyon), all at Sight & Sound, David J. Skal, Brian Smedley, Mike and Paula Smith, Somtow Sucharitkul (as S.P Somtow, author of Vampire Junction), Cath Trechman, Doug Winter and Jack Womack.

The library of books consulted includes, but is not limited to: Anna Abrahams, Warhol Films; Patricia Altner, Vampire Readings: An Annotated Bibliography; Rafael Alvarez, The Wire: Truth Be Told; William Amos, The Originals: Who's Really Who in Fiction; Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves; Steven Bach, Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate; Nicolas Barbano, Verdens 25 hotteste pronostjerner; Barbara Belford, Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula; Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls; Victor Bockris, The Life & Death of Andy Warhol, NYC Babylon: From Beat to Punk; Marlon Brando, with Robert Lindsey, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me; Matthew Bunson, Vampire: The Encyclopedia; Glennis Byron (ed), Dracula: Contemporary Critical Essays; Simon Callow, Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu; Robert L. Carringer, The Making of Citizen Kane; Raymond Chandler, The Long Good-Bye; Wensley Clarkson, Quentin Tarantino: Shooting From the Hip; Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark (ed), The Road Movie Book; Terry Comito (ed), Orson Welles, Touch of Evil; Eleanor Coppola, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now; Francis Ford Coppola, James V Hart, Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend; Peter Cowie, Coppola, The Godfather Book; Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles; Mark Dawidziak, The Columbo Phile: A Casebook; John Gregory Dunne, Monster: Living Off the Big Screen; James Ellroy, My Dark Places; Dennis Etchison, The Dark Country; Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Hollywood Life; Charles Fleming, High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess; David Flint, Babylon Blue: An Illustrated History of Adult Cinema; Karl French, Bloomsbury Film Guide: Apocalypse Now; Otto Friedrich, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s; George Galloway, Bob Wylie, Downfall: The Ceausescus and the Romanian Revolution; Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger (ed), Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture; Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide; Ronald Gottesman, Focus on Citizen Kane; Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music; Leonard G. Heldred, Mary Pharr (ed), The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature; Tod Hoffman, Homicide: Life on the Screen; James Craig Holte, Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations; Stephen Jones, The Essential Monster Movie Guide; Lyndon W. Joslin, Count Dracula Goes to the Movies: Stoker's Novel Adapted, 1922-1995; Pauline Kael, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, The Citizen Kane Book; David P. Kalat, Homicide Life on the Street: The Unofficial Companion; Stephen Koch, Stargazer: Andy Warhol's World and His Films; Robert Phillip Kolker, A Cinema of Loneliness; Andy Lane & Paul Simpson, The Bond Files; Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography; Clive Leatherdale, Bram Stoker's Dracula Unearthed; Jon Lewis, Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy... Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; Colin MacCabe, with Mark Francis, Peter Wollen (ed), Who Is Andy Warhol?; Joseph McBride, Orson Welles; David McClintick, Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street; Frank McShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler; Paula Mitchell James, And Die in the West, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century; J. Gordon Melton, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, The Vampire Gallery: A Who's Who of the Undead, VideoHound's Vampires on Video; Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The Story of L. Ron Hubbard; Peter Occhiogrosso, Inside Spinal Tap; Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Anthony Petkovich, The X Factory: Inside the American Hardcore Film Industry; Julia Phillips, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again; Michael Pye, Lynda Miles, The Movie Brats; James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker; Ed Robertson, "This is Jim Rockford...": The Rockford Files; Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany, You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again; Julie Salamon, The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood; Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Jack Sergeant, Born Bad; David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, The Corner; David J. Skal, V is for Vampire: The A-Z Guide to Everything Undead; Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies; Kent Smith, Darrell W. Moore, Merl Reagle, Adult Movies; Amy Taubin, BFI Classic: Taxi Driver; David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, Overexposures: The Crisis in American Filmmaking, Suspects, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles; Keith Topping, Slayer: The Totally Cool Unofficial Guide to Buffy; Parker Tyler, Magic and Myth of the Movies; Ultra Violet, Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol, Warhol's America (esp p. 25); Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles; Linda Williams, Hard Core; Mary Woronov, Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory; Maurice Yacowar, The Films of Paul Morrissey. The bulk of the work on this novel was done before I came - along with the rest of the world - to rely on the internet as a research tool, but subsequent drafts have been shored up by resorting to the IMDb and Wikipedia; at one point, I had to look up one of my fictional characters online to check something I'd forgotten.

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Kim 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.

ALSO BY KIM NEWMAN AND AVAILABLE FROM TITAN BOOKS.

ANNO DRACULA.

THE BLOODY RED BARON.

DRACULA CHA CHA CHA.

PROFESSOR MORIARTY.

THE HOUND OF THE D'URBERVILLES JAGO.

THE QUORUM.

LIFE'S LOTTERY (APRIL 2014).

1976-1991.

JOHNNY ALUCARD.

KIM NEWMAN.