Dracula Cha Cha Cha


Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha is an alternate history/horror novel by British writer Kim Newman. First published in 1998 by Carroll & Graf, it is the third book in the Anno Dracula series.

Plot

In 1959, several of the world's notable vampires gather in Rome for the wedding of Count Dracula. Nefarious schemes are afoot and being investigated by British Intelligence, the Diogenes Club, and several others, including a British spy on the trail of a sinister madman with a white cat.

Setting

The book is an alternate history novel set in a world where Van Helsing never killed Dracula. The version of Rome shown in the book is heavily influenced by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. As always in the series, the novel contains a number of characters from other fictional works, though due to copyright restrictions some are not named or are given aliases.
Some of these identity shifts are quite clear, while some are more obscure.
The novel's original title is inspired by Bruno Martino's song "Dracula Cha Cha Cha", which appears on the album Italian Graffiti and is performed onscreen in Vincente Minnelli's film Two Weeks in Another Town.