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{{Infobox book<br />
| image = Dracula Cha Cha Cha.jpg|<!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] --><br />
| caption = First edition<br />
| name = Dracula Cha Cha Cha<br />
| author = [[Kim Newman]]<br />
| country = [[United States]]<br />
| language = English<br />
| series = [[Anno Dracula series|''Anno Dracula'' series]]<br />
| genre = [[Alternate history]], [[Horror fiction|horror]]<br />
| publisher = [[Carroll & Graf]]<br />
| release_date = 1998<br />
| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]] and [[paperback]])<br />
| pages = 291 (paperback)<br />
| isbn = 0-380-73229-7<br />
| oclc = 42805587<br />
| preceded_by = [[The Bloody Red Baron]]<br />
| followed_by = Johnny Alucard<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha''''' (re-titled '''''Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959''''' upon initial U.S. release) is an [[alternate history]]/[[Horror fiction|horror]] novel by British writer [[Kim Newman]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 October 2012 |title=Book review of Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman |url=https://sfbook.com/dracula-cha-cha-cha.htm |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=sfbook.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Latham |first=Robert |date=2020-03-09 |title=Kim Newman's Dazzling Genre Multiverse |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kim-newmans-dazzling-genre-multiverse/ |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en}}</ref> First published in 1998 by [[Carroll & Graf]], it is the third book in the [[Anno Dracula series|''Anno Dracula'' series]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
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.<br />
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==Setting==<br />
The book is an [[alternate history]] novel set in a world where [[Abraham Van Helsing|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.<br />
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Some of these identity shifts are quite clear (such as the character of Commander Hamish Bond, based on [[James Bond]], who has a fondness for martinis, drives an [[Aston Martin]], carries a [[Walther PPK]], has the Scots version of the name "James" for his name, and gets to say "[[Casino Royale (novel)|the bitch is dead]]."), while some are more obscure (a Kansas football player named [[Superman|Kent]], for example).<br />
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The novel's original title is inspired by [[Bruno Martino]]'s song "[[Dracula Cha Cha]]" (1959) ("[[La voce del padrone]]", 7 MQ 1271), which appears on the album ''I grandi successi di Bruno Martino'' (''The Great Successes of Bruno Martino''; 1959) ([[La voce del padrone]], QELP 8012) and is performed onscreen in [[Vincente Minnelli]]'s film ''[[Two Weeks in Another Town]]'' (1962).<br />
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