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? * More than seventeen million Vampire Hunter D books in print worldwide. * Cover and six interior illustrations by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano!