Travel to a new place, hunt some monsters, uncover long forgotten lore, solve mysteries, save pretty girls, big climactic battles between powerful warriors and bloodthirsty beasts. Howard, Michael Moorcock or Arthur Conan Doyle, you’ll have some idea of what to expect. It’s very formulaic and that’s not such a bad thing. Vampire Hunter D is pulp fiction in its purest form, an orgy of every hammer film production and cheesy 70’s fantasy and horror novel you can think of.Įach book chronicles D traveling to a new location to solve a mystery and take down a tyrant vampire lord terrorizing the locals. Over-the-top violence and flashy action scenes, a blend of every monster in the history of fiction and folklore pulled from every culture imaginable, an insane mashup of dark fantasy, science fiction, dystopian horror, sword & sorcery, spaghetti western, detective mystery and gothic drama. The vampires and their legions of bloodthirsty demons. But from the wreckage a few humans manage to survive, and a race of forgotten creatures rose up from the ashes. The world has ended, ravaged in a firestorm of man’s wars and madness. Van Helsing failed to kill Dracula and save Mina Harker which resulted in Dracula killing the cast of Bram Stoker’s original novel, enslaving humanity and ruling the world with an army of scientifically manufactured demons at his disposal for thousands of years.

Vampire Hunter D takes place in an alternate version of Earth where Dr.

Hideyuki kikuchi's vampire hunter d