Vampire Hunter D Volume 8: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two

by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator)

Overview

The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one-Baron Meinster-refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin.

Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea-could it be Meinster's Revenge?

* More than seventeen million Vampire Hunter D books in print worldwide.

* Cover and six interior illustrations by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621154945
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	10/09/2012
Series:	Vampire Hunter D Series , #8
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	976 KB

About the Author

Hideyuki Kikuchi is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works include the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues, and Wicked City. He has been compared to both Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft. Kikuchi was born in Chōshi, Japan, on September 25, 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University and was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. His first novel, Demon City Shinjuku, was published in 1982. Kikuchi became close friends with writer and director Yoshiaki Kawajiri during his adaption of Wicked City and the two have since collaborated on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and the OVA of Demon City Shinjuku.

Yoshitaka Amano is a comic book and manga creator, artist, and cover artist known for his work on Aliens, Sandman, and Speed Racer.