Orgy of the Blood Parasites by Jack Yeovil

The character Genevieve Dieudonne, who appeared in much of his Warhammer work beginning with the novel Drachenfels, went on to also be a part of the Anno Dracula and Diogenes Club universes. Newman has also written some fiction under the name Jack Yeovil, including tie-in novels and short stories for Games Workshop's Dark Future and Warhammer settings. Leech is an unholy No Celebrities Were Harmed mashup of Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch who is secretly working toward some kind of consumer-culture-apotheosis apocalypse - and is also a big fan of the Xanatos Gambit every single story he appears in, even the ones where he's being actively opposed, ends with him a little bit closer to achieving his goal.

Each story is a stylistic pastiche of the investigator of the unknown and/or secret agent fiction of the period in which it's set, with much Lampshade Hanging and other playing with tropes.Īnother recurring character, introduced in 'The Original Dr Shade' but featured most completely in the novel The Quorum, is the satanic media magnate Derek Leech any time a Newman character makes a Deal with the Devil, it's generally a Deal With Derek. Probably his best-known work is the Anno Dracula sequence, an Alternate History in which Count Dracula succeeded in taking over England, played out as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring just about every famous fictional vampire ever, as well as many other famous fictional characters.Īlso of interest to tropers is his Diogenes Club sequence, concerning a secret service devoted to investigating the weird and improbable, from the return of Zombie Hitler to an insane murderer who devotes his kills to the goblins Snap, Crackle, and Pop. Kim James Newman (born July 31 1959) is an English author of often-satirical horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

Orgy of the Blood Parasites by Jack Yeovil