"There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong..." In 1899 Genevi ve Dieudonn travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled from Great Britain by Prince Dracula. They are allowed to settle in Yōkai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan's own vampires, an altogether strange and less human breed than the nosferatu of Europe. Yet it is not the sanctuary they had hoped for, as a vicious murderer sets vampire against vampire, and Yōkai Town is revealed to be more a prison than a refuge. Genevi ve and her undead comrades will be forced to face new enemies and the horrors hidden within the Temple of One Thousand Monsters...