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Vampire Hunter D — by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Vampire Hunter D Series in Order: 30 books
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Vampire Hunter D, Volume 1
Book - 1
It is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has ended, ravaged in a firestorm of man's wars and madness. But from the wreckage a few humans manage to survive. A few humans ... and something else. Doris Lang knew what her fate was when the vampire lord Co...
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Raiser of Gales
Book - 2
The adventures of Vampire Hunter D continue!Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing...
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Demon Deathchase
Book - 3
When a desperate village elder learns that his daughter has been abducted by vampire Noble Mayerling, he turns to the mysterious Vampire Hunter D to save her. However, with not just his daughter's life but her very soul in peril, her father also enli...
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Tale of the Dead Town
Book - 4
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...
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The Stuff of Dreams
Book - 5
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-ye...
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Pilgrimage of the Sacred
Book - 6
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 F...
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Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One
Book - 7
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 journ...
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Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two
Book - 8
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 so...
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The Rose Princess
Book - 9
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 ...
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Dark Nocturne
Book - 10
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 d...
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Pale Fallen Angel - Parts One and Two
Book - 11
"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...
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Pale Fallen Angel Parts Three and Four
Book - 12
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 b...
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Twin-Shadowed Knight Parts One and Two
Book - 13
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 crat...
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Dark Road, Parts 1 and 2
Book - 14
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 the few survivors in the villages - and makes way with her and the Deliverers. Along th...
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Dark Road, Part Three
Book - 15
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 t...
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Tyrant's Stars, Parts One and Two
Book - 16
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...
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Tyrant's Stars, Parts 3 and 4
Book - 17
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 wi...
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Fortress of the Elder God
Book - 18
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 swarmin...
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Mercenary Road
Book - 19
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 e...
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Scenes from an Unholy War
Book - 20
In a village on the edge of the Frontier, D is among the warriors and mercenaries hired to defend the village from the Black Death, a notorious bandit gang. But the bandits don't arrive, and the village mayor dismisses the mercenaries. As D leaves th...
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Record of the Blood Battle
Book - 21
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 ...
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White Devil Mountain
Book - 22
Commissioned by a vampire ancient 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 di...
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Iriya the Berserker
Book - 23
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-vampi...
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Throng of Heretics
Book - 24
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 ...
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Undead Island
Book - 25
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 n...
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Bedeviled Stagecoach
Book - 26
In the Wild-West wilderness of the Frontier, government official has been tasked with escorting captured servants of the vampire Nobility. Unfortunately their path to the Capital crosses into the territory of the Noble that is their master! As the co...
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Nightmare Village
Book - 27
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 ...
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The Tiger in Winter
Book - 28
D is a vampire hunter--and he's just been paid ten times his asking price to do exactly that, an assignment to destroy Duke Van Doren, administrator of the northern Frontier.Among the complications are that no less than three other groups, each with ...
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Noble Front
Book - 29
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 pol...
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Gold Fiend
Book - 30
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 -- bu...
Series Premise
In the year 12,090 A.D., Earth is a ruined, post-apocalyptic wasteland following a devastating nuclear war and a subsequent rebellion that overthrew the vampire elite known as the Nobility (or "Aristocrats"). The Nobility—ancient, technologically advanced vampires who once ruled humanity—have largely retreated or declined, leaving a fractured world of scattered human settlements, mutants, monsters, and lingering high-tech ruins. Humans survive on the Frontier, a lawless, dangerous expanse of deserts, ruined cities, and strange biomes, constantly threatened by surviving vampires, bio-engineered horrors, and other supernatural or technological menaces. Into this world wanders D, a mysterious, dhampir (half-human, half-vampire) vampire hunter. Tall, pale, cloaked in black, with long black hair and a wide-brimmed hat, D is a stoic, near-silent warrior of unearthly beauty and skill. Armed with a longsword and aided by a sardonic, parasitic entity living in his left hand (a foul-mouthed, wise-cracking mouth that provides commentary, advice, and occasional power boosts), D travels the Frontier accepting jobs to hunt rogue Nobility or other threats. He is hired by desperate villagers, farmers, or nobles to slay vampires who prey on humans, often involving young women targeted as brides or victims. D's mixed heritage gives him vampiric strengths (superhuman speed/strength, regeneration, resistance to sunlight) without full weaknesses, but he is an outcast—feared and shunned by both humans and vampires. Each novel is a self-contained adventure: D arrives in a remote town or frontier outpost, confronts a powerful vampire lord or monster, protects innocents (usually a strong-willed heroine and her family), battles grotesque creatures and traps, and departs into the wasteland. Stories explore isolation, honor, the cost of immortality, humanity's resilience, and the blurred line between monster and savior.
Vampire Hunter D Series Characters
> D (the Vampire Hunter): The stoic, enigmatic protagonist—dhampir son of the Sacred Ancestor (the first and most powerful vampire, implied to be a god-like figure). Pale, beautiful, long black hair, wide-brimmed hat, black cloak, longsword. Superhuman abilities, but tormented by his dual nature and isolation. Speaks little, acts decisively; his Left Hand (a parasitic entity with a foul mouth) provides cynical commentary, analysis, and power.
> Left Hand (Parasite): A grotesque mouth on D's left palm—sarcastic, vulgar, knowledgeable; acts as D's advisor, sensor, and occasional weapon.
> The Sacred Ancestor: D's mysterious father—ancient, god-like vampire; rarely appears but looms over the series as a shadowy force.
> Recurring/rotating heroines: Strong-willed women (farmers' daughters, nobles, warriors) who hire D or cross his path; often develop tragic or bittersweet attraction to him (e.g., Doris Lang in book 1).
> Villains: Vampire Nobles (elegant, cruel aristocrats), mutants, bio-monsters, mad scientists, or ancient horrors—often with tragic backstories or god-like power.
Setting of the Vampire Hunter D Series
A far-future Earth (12,090 A.D.) after dual apocalypses: nuclear war that destroyed human civilization and a vampire uprising that enslaved survivors. The Nobility ruled for millennia with advanced technology (cyborgs, bio-engineering, flying fortresses, AI) before their decline, leaving a Frontier of scattered human settlements (frontier towns, farms, ruined cities) amid deserts, forests, mountains, and strange biomes. Technology is scavenged and decaying—laser guns, cybernetic implants, ancient machines—while supernatural elements (vampires, mutants, demons, Lovecraftian horrors) persist. The world is a weird west fused with dark fantasy and sci-fi horror: saloons with cyborg bartenders, castles powered by forgotten reactors, nomadic tribes, and endless wastelands under a blood-red sky.
Tone & Themes of the Vampire Hunter D Series
Darkly atmospheric, gothic, pulpy, and melancholic—hard-boiled horror-western with poetic, almost operatic flair. Kikuchi's tone mixes noir cynicism with tragic beauty: D is aloof and fatalistic, the world is bleak and unforgiving, yet moments of quiet heroism, doomed romance, and fleeting human connection shine through. Violence is vivid and stylish (swordplay, gore, monstrous transformations), but the series is more elegiac than gratuitous—focusing on atmosphere, existential dread, and the loneliness of immortality. Humor is dry and sardonic (mostly from the Left Hand's insults), while romance is tragic and restrained. The prose is dense, descriptive, and dreamlike, evoking a sense of mythic inevitability—perfect for fans of gothic horror, spaghetti westerns, and Lovecraftian cosmic dread.
The Vampire Hunter D series is a haunting, stylish masterpiece of dark fantasy and post-apocalyptic horror—over 50 volumes of atmospheric, pulp-infused adventures that blend western grit, gothic tragedy, and cosmic dread. Hideyuki Kikuchi's visionary world-building and Yoshitaka Amano's breathtaking illustrations create an unforgettable saga of a lone dhampir hunter wandering a ruined Earth, battling monsters and his own nature. With its melancholic beauty, philosophical undertones, and relentless action, the series remains a cult classic for fans of genre-blending horror—timeless, mesmerizing, and profoundly lonely in the best way.
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