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Informationen zum Autor 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 Choshi, 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 . Klappentext 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? Zusammenfassung 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? ...
