The third volume of the popular Japanese series comes to America in "Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase." 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Pale Fallen Angels" parts one and two, the first two novels of Hideyuki Kikuchi's groundbreaking, epic four-part "Vampire Hunter D" tale, are presented here in one affordable omnibus collection! 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 ...
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. ...
While the art and craftsmanship of the Anglo-Saxons is much admired, the background to this superb work is little understood. Kevin Leahy, a trained craftsman and archaeologist, looks at how the artifacts were made--at the materials, the tools, and techniques that were used. His survey ranges from casting a brooch to making a sword, from pottery ...
Lindsey was a small Anglo-Saxon Kingdom that lay to the south of the Humber Estuary in what is now north Lincolnshire. For long neglected, over the last 50 years, Lindsey has emerged from its own dark age to reappear as an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, never powerful, usually on the edge of great events, but highly prosperous and sophisticated. Drawing on ...
Vampire lore dictates that the creatures of the night shun the sea...or do they? 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 ...
The Cleatham, North Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon cemetery contained over 1200 cremations and 62 graves, making it England's third largest cemetery of the period. Burial took place over the whole of the Early Saxon period starting around the mid-5th century and ending with 'Final Phase' graves of the later 7th century. The most important feature of ...
On 5 July 2009 a metal-detector user started to unearth some gold objects in a Staffordshire field. Thus began the discovery of the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. Consisting of over 1600 items including fittings from the hilts of swords, fragments from helmets, Christian crosses and magnificent pieces of garnet work, "The ...
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