Books in series
#1
Vampire Hunter D
1983
12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.
Every village wants a Hunter-one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them...
From creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, one of Japan's leading horror authors with illustrations by renowned Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano, best known for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters and the Final Fantasy games.
#2
Vampire Hunter D Volume 2
Raiser of Gales
1984
The people of the village of Tepes once cowered in fear beneath the shadow of the Nobility manor. But the Nobility moved on, and the castle sat empty, a place whispered of in ghost stories to caution young people to stay away. One day four of the village children vanished. Only three returned, with no memory of what had happened or where they went. That was ten years ago. Now, in the year 12,090 A.D., vampires who can walk in the daylight have appeared. Did the disappearance of the children have something to do with the undead's newfound powers?
#3
Vampire Hunter D Volume 3
Demon Deathchase
1985
The novel that was the basis for the hit motion picture Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlustis.
The third volume of the popular Japanese series Vampire Hunter D. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink to worry about. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. Beautiful illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano complement the post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists.
#4
Vampire Hunter D Volume 4
Tale of the Dead Town
1986
When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis.
"The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise.
A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the small haven. While the Vampire Hunter known only as "D" struggles to exterminate the scourge, a former denizen of the city, the attractive Raleigh Knight, and the brash John M. Brassalli Pluto VIII seize control of the city lurching it onto a new and deadly course. D's travails are just beginning.
#5
Vampire Hunter D Volume 5
The Stuff of Dreams
1986
In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that seventeen-year-old Sheavil Schmidt has slept, neither waking nor aging, for thirty years since first receiving the vampire's immortal kiss. The mysterious Vampire Hunter D is lured to the tranquil oasis by recurrent dreams of the beautiful, undying girl bathed in an eerie blue light and dancing in a ghostly chateau.
The Stuff of Dreams is volume 5 in a seventeen volume series.
Vampire Hunter D is a co-publication of DH Press and Digital Manga Publishing.
FOR MATURE READERS
#6
Vampire Hunter D Volume 6
Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane
1988
Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle - Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is - and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are.
#7
Vampire Hunter D Volume 7
Mysterious Journey to the North Sea - Part One
1988
A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel.
Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series.
#8
Vampire Hunter D Volume 8
Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two
1989
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?
#9
Vampire Hunter D Volume 9
The Rose Princess
1994
In Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing so incurs the wrath of the entire town. The citizens of Sakuri have entered into a pact with the Undead princess and her monstrous bodyguards. With the ritual offering disrupted, the vampire's armored bodyguards vow to murder the villagers one by one until the would-be hero is captured.
When Vampire Hunter D learns of the villagers' bargain he knows he faces several almost impossible challenges-can he rid the town of the parasitic demons that plague it? What if Sakuri's inhabitants don't want to be rescued? And can he uncover the secret that even the vampire Noble is afraid to speak?
#10
Vampire Hunter D Volume 10
Dark Nocturne
2008
In the title story, "Dark Nocturne," D is hired to unlock the secret of a siren's song that is drawing men in their twenties to their deaths in the hills outside Anise Village. In "Notes on Imagined Autumn" D finds himself caught between two lovers during a ritualistic sacrifice in the village of Shirley's Door, but if D can't stop the sacrifice will all in the village be doomed? And in "Legend of the War Demons" two living weapons, genetically engineered creatures who are the last remnants of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, find that battle is not so easily forgotten. It's up to D to stop their unending conflict before it consumes the present as it did the past.
#11
Vampire Hunter D Volume 11
Pale Fallen Angels - Parts One and Two
2008
MP3 CD Format " A mysterious land under the control of Lord Vlad Balarge, a member of the vampire Nobility. When Lord Vlad's son, Baron Byron Balarge, needs to make a long and treacherous journey to faraway Krauhasen, he commissions the help of the infamous Vampire Hunter D, promising a princely sum and a solemn vow-no feasting on any humans for the duration of their journey! Still, D finds his work cut out for him as the duo encounters an ongoing parade of thugs, rogues, and runaways, all with riot and revenge in mind. The pair are joined by the teenage tumbling act, May and Hugh, and the haughty Noblewoman Miska, recently spared death by the stake. But when D discovers the Baron's plans to murder Lord Vlad, he quickly finds his own life in danger. Pale Fallen Angels - Parts One and Two, the first two stories of Hideyuki Kikuchi's groundbreaking epic four-part Vampire Hunter D tale, are presented here in one omnibus production! Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music! Performed by Scott McCormick, David Cui Cui, Mike Carnes, Emily Beresford, Amanda Forstrom, Drew Kopas, Khaya Fraites, Terence Aselford, Henry Kramer, James Lewis, John Kielty, Richard Rohan, Daniel Llaca, Matthew Bassett, Patrick Boylan, Ken Jackson, Elias Khalil, Michael John Casey, Robb Moreira, Gabriel Michael, Bradley Smith, Matthew Pauli, Ryan Haugen, Samantha Cooper, Yasmin Tuazon, and Karen Novack."
#12
Vampire Hunter D Volume 12
Pale Fallen Angels - Parts Three and Four
2009
Baron Byron Balazs nears the end of his arduous journey; his bodyguard-the enigmatic and deadly Vampire Hunter D—has delivered him to his faraway home in Krauhausen. Having survived the near-epic journey, and many attempts on his life—ordered by his father, the dread Vampire Noble Lord Vlad—the baron thinks he is ready for his final battle, whatever the cost. But Lord Vlad is not so easily vanquished, as he unleashes yet another host of nefarious killers on his son, not least of whom is a mad doctor who was enlisted to perform sinister experiments on the young baron's mother years before!
\* The epic conclusion of the longest Vampire Hunter D story ever. This book was originally published in four individual novels in Japan. To make this more affordable for fans, we're releasing this mega-novel as two omnibus volumes!
\* Features thirteen black-and-white line illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano.
#13
Vampire Hunter D Volume 13
Twin Shadowed Knight - Parts One and Two
1996
When Vampire Hunter D entered the town of Sedoc it was in search of answers to the meaning of a dying vampire's last words: "Find Muma." But when he meets Mia, the daughter of the local fortuneteller, he learns the mists emanating from a smoking crater on the outskirts of Sedoc have reanimated thousands of corpses, compelling them to crawl from their graves and hurl themselves into the smoking chasm. When D goes to investigate, he finds himself split in two: a second Vampire Hunter D, full of passion and lust and hunger for the company of women, is born!
\* Features eleven black-and-white line illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano.
"Richly descriptive, filled with bone crushing action and horror aplenty, this is one wild ride down the highway to Hell." - Active Anime
#14
Vampire Hunter D Volume 14
Dark Road - Parts One and Two
1999
D has crossed over the southern border, into the domain of the cruelest and most evil of the royalty, General Gaskell. On the way, he picks up a "victim" — one of few survivors in the villages-and makes way with her and the Deliverers. Along the way, he is attacked by the Drowned, and fights many more unspeakably horrible enemies. All of this suggests that Gaskell — who was supposed to have been put to death under the light of the sun — is still very much alive. But why?
\* Features twelve black-and-white line illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano.
#15
Vampire Hunter D Volume 15
Dark Road - Part Three
1999
Vampire Hunter D takes on his greatest challenge yet! The ruthless vampire Noble General Gaskell commands the loyalty of some of the most infamous and deadly vampires in history, and Gaskell has no patience for D's interference, heroic or not! With the odds stacked against him, D must prevail—or perish.
\* Features seven gorgeous black-and-white line illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano as well as a color tip-in illustration.
#16
Vampire Hunter D Volume 16
Tyrant’s Stars - Parts One and Two
2000
In this chilling adventure, Vampire Hunter D has been dispatched to vanquish the ancient vampiric Noble Count Brohj, guardian of an ancient buried treasure. But when a mysterious object crashes into the earth, destroying half of the northern Frontier, D faces an even more terrifying opponent - the renegade vampire Valcua, the Ultimate Noble! Having been exiled to outer space, Valcua took his entire kingdom of strange and deadly creatures with him, and swore that when the time was right they would return to have their revenge. Unfortunately for D, that time is now .
#17
Vampire Hunter D Volume 17
Tyrant's Stars - Parts Three and Four
2001
Vampire Hunter D continues his quest to overcome the interstellar evil brought to Earth by the ultimate Noble, the terrifying renegade vampire Valcua! Wielding a sword that can cut through the fabric of space and time, Valcua has a score to settle with the bloodline of humans responsible for his exile. The family has enlisted D to protect them from Valcua's wrath, and the Vampire Hunter might be their only chance at survival.
#18
Vampire Hunter D Volume 18
Fortress of the Elder God
2001
D, the ageless, supernatural Vampire Hunter, takes charge protecting the survivors of an aircraft that has crash-landed in a deadly zone known as "the Playground." But before D can assist them, he must first battle a legion of undead warriors swarming from the fortress of the Sacred Ancestor, the oldest vampire in existence!
#19
Vampire Hunter D Volume 19
Mercenary Road
2003
When a ruthless quartet of robbers leaves a trail of bloody slaughter through a small frontier town, the mayor looks to hire a pair of bounty hunters to bring them to justice. But their path is strewn with peril and supernatural terror - an army of enchanted soldiers swarms the road leading to an abandoned castle! If they want to survive the journey, these hunters must enlist the help of the greatest warrior in the world - the vampire hunter known only as D.
#21
Vampire Hunter D Volume 21
Record of the Blood Battle
2004
D accompanies a convoy delivering a vampire Noble to face public trial for his crimes against humanity. However, the Noble’s enemies have targeted the men and women of the convoy, and they are out for vengeance! Can D bring himself to kill humans in order to protect the Noble under his charge?
#22
Vampire Hunter D Volume 22
White Devil Mountain - Parts One and Two
2005
Commissioned by an ancient vampire to recover the coffin containing the body of the demonic Gilzen, hated even by his own kind, D travels to a frightening mountain landscape perennially shrouded in snow. Within a castle piercing the mountainside, D discovers a group of knights tasked to protect Gilzen at any cost. It's time for D to use all the forces and powers at his command to prevent Gilzen's resurrection!
This volume of the long-running series combines two novels and features eleven original illustrations by Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano.
#23
Vampire Hunter D Volume 23
Iriya the Berserker
2007
She might just look like an ordinary-if beautiful-young woman, but Iriya is anything but ordinary! A ruthless warrior clad in red armor, Iriya is a Hunter determined to exterminate the vampires that were once her parents and siblings. Now, half-vampire, half-human D has to decide to offer his assistance, get out of the way, or have a dangerous battle on his hands!
This latest volume features six new illustrations by Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano and an unforgettable matchup between the coolest vampire hunter and the hottest berserker woman on the Frontier!
#24
Vampire Hunter D Volume 24
Throng of Heretics
2007
After a Frontier village's monitoring station fails, deadly vampire Nobles return to life, swearing vengeance on the descendants of the family that defeated them three hundred years ago. The mayor of the village hires five vampire hunters, including the legendary D, but as the mayor returns from the Capital, he finds that his daughter has been targeted by vicious human enemies! In this brewing three-way battle of life and death, no one's survival is assured...
This latest volume in the series features seven new illustrations by Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano.
#25
Vampire Hunter D Volume 25
Undead Island
2008
On an isolated island, vampire Nobility run a mysterious laboratory, continuously pumping out a white mist which compels the inhabitants of a nearby fishing village to become the vampire's slaves! When the village tries to retaliate, their fighters never return. The vampire hunter known only as D has been sighted on the island, but how did he come to be there, and whose side is he on, and will any mortals survive the brewing conflict?
This twenty-fifth volume features seven new illustrations by Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano.
#27
Vampire Hunter D Volume 27
Nightmare Village
2010
A mixed band of travelers from an inn, spared by seeming chance from a bizarre landslide that rushed and receded like a wave, find shelter in an ancient village older even than the most forsaken settlements on the Frontier! Indeed, for fearful rumor has it that once long ago the village was a testing ground of the Sacred Ancestor…that sought to twist the genes of aliens, humans, and Nobles into a new form of life! What was formed here in the distant past seeks to nourish itself on the travelers and rise again.
Can D save them and destroy the evil legacy—or is his arrival exactly what the village requires for its nightmare to awaken at last?
#29
Vampire Hunter D Volume 29
Noble Front
2012
Out on the Frontier, the killers called the "Nameless" have no wanted posters—because everyone they go after winds up dead. Now D must measure his sword against these grotesque and deadly freaks!
Hired by the mayor of Schwartzen to stop a corrupt political ploy that would sacrifice human lives to appease the local Noble, Grand Duke Bergenzy, the vampire hunter arrives in town to find his client has himself dropped dead under suspicious circumstances. His widow, wanting no more bloodshed, begs D to simply forget the job—but D's interest in the job is just beginning...
#30
Vampire Hunter D Volume 30
Gold Fiend Parts 1 & 2
2021
Marquis Verenis—he's a powerful Noble...he's in possession of antimatter technology...and he's three hundred million dalas in debt to Old El, the lender of last resort out on the Frontier!
The vampire lord even put up his castle as collateral—but not a single collection agent dispatched by El has returned, so it's time to call in an outside consultant, named D! But the mooching Marquis isn't the only one who owes the financier big time and would rather kill Old El than pay up—and those debtors too mean deadly trouble ahead for D...even if they are only human!
#31
Vampire Hunter D Volume 31
Sylvia's Road Home
2013
#32
吸血鬼ハンター27 D―貴族祭
2014
#33
吸血鬼ハンター28 D-夜会煉獄
2014
〈貴族祭〉前日に、ダルマラス村に石棺を届けたＤたち一行だったが、棺の中身が悪名高いローランジュ公爵夫人だと知った村長は、彼女を取り戻しに来る公爵を警戒して、祭り終了までＤを雇うことにする。果たして祭りは無事、開催されるのか？
#35
吸血鬼ハンター（30） D-美兇人 (朝日文庫ソノラマセレクション)
2016
貴族の領主から、貴族と人間の中間である「もどき」の軍団を排除してほしいと依頼されたＤ。「もどき」を率いるのは、領主の息子で手垂れの戦士。一族の汚名を晴らさんと立ち上がった領主の娘とともに、Ｄは旅に出ることになるが……。
#36
吸血鬼ハンター（31） D-消えた貴族軍団 (朝日文庫ソノラマセレクション)
2016
行方不明の仲間を救うため〈消滅辺境〉に向かっていた〈医師団〉は、Ｄに護衛を依頼する。そして、貴族の娘・ベガも、彼の地に消えた許嫁を探して軍団を進めていた。貴族さえも帰還不能な〈消滅辺境〉で、Ｄたちを待ち受けるのは──！？
#37
吸血鬼ハンター（32） D-五人の刺客 (朝日文庫ソノラマセレクション)
2017
＜神祖＞が残した五つの道標を手に入れると、不老不死になれるという。五人の貴族が守る道標を求めて血眼になる人間たちの中に、Ｄの姿があった。道標を手に入れるのは誰か？ すでに不死なるＤは、何故この戦いに身を投じたのか？
#40
吸血鬼ハンター（35） D-黒い来訪者 (朝日文庫ソノラマセレクション)
2019
寒村で暮らすエマのもとにベネッサが下宿人としてやってきた。ベネッサは３歳で貴族に見初められたエマを研究したいという。エマの恩恵を受けている村人たち、彼女を狙うごろつきたちの欲望と思惑がうずまく村に、Ｄもまた足を踏み入れる。
#41
吸血鬼ハンター（36） D-山嶽鬼 (朝日文庫ソノラマセレクション)
2019
神秘の山"冥府山"に集まった腕利きの男女たち。そして消えた母親と恋人を探す女性ミルドレッドに旅の同伴を依頼されたＤもまた山頂の冥府城を目指す。この山に集まる彼らには共通する過去があった。彼らを呼び寄せた者の正体、そして目的はいったい──？
#42
吸血鬼ハンター（37） D-闇の魔女歌
2020
#43
吸血鬼ハンター（38） D-暗殺者の要塞
2021
#48
Noble V
Greylancer
2013
Greylancer, a Noble (vampire) from the world of the Vampire Hunter D series, pushes his own immortality to the limit in a millennia-long battle against the Outer Space Beings. It is the year 7001 by Noble reckoning, and the vampire rulers of the world have grown complacent. When the Outer Space Beings invade, the Noble warrior Greylancer must pit his skills and magic against the technology of the OSBs, quash an anti-Noble rebellion, and, when he is critically injured, turn to mere humans for help. The Three Thousand Year War of Vampire Hunter D begins here!
#49
The Noble Greylancer — Blood of a Hero
2011
Five years after the previous volume, a new enemy of the Nobility has arisen. The hero Sunhawk, after rampaging across the Frontier, has finally invaded Greylancer's Northern Frontier Sector. However a mysterious disease has claimed the lives of several Nobles who have fed on human blood, and the fearful Nobility has ordered Greylancer to infiltrate a free land known as the Twilight Zone in order to discover its source. Awaiting him are the malevolent OSB and a rebel Noble, along with the assassins who have joined him. Meanwhile, a conspiracy to place the entire Frontier under the sole rule of the Capital is revealed, and a noble begins to slaughter humans with toxic blood. The chaos leads Greylancer to the Nobility's Grand Ball, lance in hand. What will become of Sunhawk, and what will come of the incident?
#50
Yoshitaka Amano
The Collected Art of Vampire Hunter D
2007
Since Dark Horse and Digital Manga Publishing started releasing English-language editions of the Vampire Hunter D novels in 2005, hundreds of thousands of new fans have clamored for more of the enigmatic monster-slayer. Following on the heels of the highly successful retrospective Coffin, Dark Horse Books is pleased to present a new collection of paintings, line-art illustrations, and photography by internationally renowned artist and Vampire Hunter D character designer Yoshitaka Amano. This collection also includes a short story, "A Village in Fog" by Vampire Hunter D creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, unavailable elsewhere.
#51
Vampire Hunter D Reader's Guide
2010
An international sensation for more than two decades, the now-legendary monster killer known only as "D" has conquered the worlds of movies, comics, and, since the publication of the first novel in English in 2004, is becoming just as popular in America and the English-speaking world as he has been in Japan for more than a dozen novels. Now, for the first time, go behind the scenes of the phenomenon. With rare artwork from Yoshitaka Amano and interviews that shed light on the inspirations for the memorable stories, you'll have a front-row seat at the creation of the two animated adventures of Vampire Hunter D, and learn new secrets about the novels through detailed summaries.
#1-3
Vampire Hunter D Omnibus
Book One
2021
A new omnibus collecting the first three volumes of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series!
It is 12,090 A.D., thousands of years since the human race nearly destroyed itself in a nuclear war—a folly foreseen by those who waited to emerge out of the underground...not from shelters, but from crypts!
The aristocratic vampire lords known as the Nobles inherited our world, and with dark science and immortal patience made real the things that mortals had merely dreamed, whether voyaging to the distant stars, or conjuring monsters to roam the Earth.
Yet the grand civilization of the Nobles has grown decadent, and as the terrorized remnants of humanity at last found the strength to rebel, their undying lords have been pushed back to the Frontier—the violent borderlands where humans still remain the prey of vampires, who for all their knowledge and power have never lost their obsession with our living flesh, blood...and souls!
In this bizarre and deadly far future the most dangerous thing of all is not a vampire, but the one who hunts them—the one who is half them—a dhampir, the unearthly beautiful wanderer known as D. The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus collects the first three novels in author Hideyuki Kikuchi's adventure horror Vampire Hunter D, Raiser of Gales, and Demon Deathchase . Illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, this book is only the beginning of a legend!
#4-6
Vampire Hunter D Omnibus
Book Two
2022
A new omnibus collecting volumes four, five and six of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series!
The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind's nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. Yet humanity too remains as quick as ever to prey upon itself, and where the law can't bring safety or justice, the crescent blade of D will—assuming you meet the half-vampire wanderer's price!
A wondrous floating city, long a drifting sanctuary against marauding creatures, has its peace violently shattered by invasion...a village where humans and vampires live in harmony hangs upon the endless sleep of a beautiful dreamer, bitten decades past by the undead Nobility...a wizened crone named Granny Viper with a reputation for recovering abductees on the Frontier finds she's chosen the wrong allies in rescuing a young girl. These are only the beginnings of the strange adventure stories into which steps Vampire Hunter D!
The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Two collects volumes four, five, and six in author Hideyuki Kikuchi's adventure horror series: Tale of the Dead Town, The Stuff of Dreams, and Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane. Illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, the legend of D endures!
#7-9
Vampire Hunter D Omnibus
Book Three
2023
A new omnibus collecting volumes seven, eight, and nine of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series!
The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind’s nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. Yet humanity too remains as quick as ever to prey upon itself, and where the law can’t bring safety or justice, the crescent blade of D will—assuming you meet the half-vampire wanderer’s price!
A beautiful young woman, fatally wounded in a journey across the wastelands, entrusts a mission to D with her final breath—deliver the precious jewel she carries to her sister Su-In. She resides in the North Sea town of Florence, once a pleasure resort for the vampiric Nobility, before they were cast out a thousand years ago. But their curse from a millennium past has returned to afflict the human inhabitants, and it comes seemingly from what any vampire should fear—the ocean! Then, D crosses the path of a would-be vampire hunter who dared disrupt a sacrifice in the village of Sacri, and himself became hunted by the residents. What unholy pact have they made with the Nobility, to bring their mortal wrath down upon one who would destroy the immortals…?
The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Three collects volumes seven, eight, and nine in author Hideyuki Kikuchi’s adventure horror series: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Part One, Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Part Two, and The Rose Princess. Illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, the legend of D endures!
Authors
Yoshitaka Amano
Author · 13 books
Born in 1952 in Shizuoka, Japan, Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝) was hired at the age of fifteen by Tatsunoko Productions, where he was involved in character design for the animated television program Gatchaman (aired in America as Battle of the Planets and G-Force) among other projects. His career in publishing began with Twilight Worlds in 1981. In 1983 he was presented with the Seiun Award for Art, which he went on to win for three subsequent years. In 1987 he did the character design for the first Final Fantasy video game, winning him widespread acclaim. In 1990 he branched out into new artistic realms, doing stage design for Tamasaburo Bando's production of Nayotake and other plays, and designing a stained-glass window for the Yosei Musuem. In 1995, a deepening interest in art led him to begin making lithographs at a studio in Paris. In 1996, he began doing lithographs at a studio in New York and has since held solo exhibitions in galleries all over Japan. In 1997 he held his first solo exhibition in New York. His most recent works include the Ganime animated films for Toei Animation and the books Worlds of Amano and Amano: The Collected Art of Vampire Hunter D.
