With wit, intelligence, and brilliantly brazen inventiveness, acclaimed author KIM NEWMAN has created a new reality from our most salacious desires and vivid fever dreams. Here is a world both exuberantly strange and disturbingly familiar -- a place where the historical and hallucinatory intermingle; where the warm and the undead coexist in a parasitic peace. The Victorian nightmare of Anno Dracula and the wartime horror of The Bloody Red Baron have given way to a new era of lascivious excess and the unending pursuit of pleasure. The year is 1959, and La Dolce Vita cannot hold a candle to La Dolce Morte. Remember? The jet setters, the intelligentsia, the artists and luminaries, the powerful and the merely curious from all over the world are descending upon "the Eternal City". The paparazzi have gathered en masse to chronicle the raucous wake of a remarkable decade -- and to shoot the beautiful ones who have arrived to be seen. Rome is in her glory, for the dark prince himself has selected this ancient metropolis of fountains and lovers and history as the site of his latest nuptials -- and everyone who's anyone, vampire and mortal alike, is planning to attend. The mad celebration has begun in earnest; the "Dracula Cha Cha Cha" is all the rage. But come the blood-red dawn, there will be a terrible price to pay. For no party truly lasts forever...and even the undead must die.