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Years back Kim Newman wrote "Anno Dracula", in which ol' Vlad 'wasnʼt derailed in his attempt to take over the British Empire by an affair with the wife of a rural solicitor'. After marrying Victoria and taking charge, every Count No-count strega, vrudolak, and blutsafter we know from endless cheap flicks flocks to London….

(Newman wrote it c.1990; two years back, referencing Dracula's ascendancy, a character muses 'Everyone remembers where they were when they found out that the worst person in the world had become its most powerful.')

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