Samurai Vampire, Book II: Sword of the Undead

In 1872, Jonathan Harker travels to Japan to inform Lord Hidetora Kageura that the castle the lord commissioned to be built in Los Angeles, California, has been completed. Leaving Harker for dead, Kageura relocates to the United States. Meanwhile, Harker's friend, Lucy, dies from a mysterious ailment, which Dr. Van Helsing determines is a vampire's bite. Harker, still alive, returns to the United States, but now his wife, Mina, is the vampire's target. Sword of the Undead introduces a new vampire: a Japanese samurai lord, and a new vampire slayer, legendary historical swordsman, Yagyu Jubei. Jubei arrives at the Harker household looking for a mutual acquaintance, but instead encounters the vampire. Incorporating real events in Japanese and United States history, Sword of the Undead combines old-fashioned horror with classic Japanese samurai drama resulting in an enjoyable re-telling of the Dracula story...with a twist. The book contains a glossary to help with unfamiliar terms.

About the Author

Steven Fujita was born in Los Angeles and raised in Torrance, California. He attended college in Washington, D.C., and currently lives in Long Beach, California. Mr. Fujita is the author of the vampire novella, Samurai Vampire, Book II: Sword of the Undead and the financial planning book, $10 A Day Towards $1,000,000. In June 2012, as a consequence of meningitis, he suffered a spinal cord injury, which temporarily left him a paraplegic. He wrote about his recovery process in a book titled Toe Up to 10K, which won the Gold Medal in the 2015 Readers' Favorite Book Awards, in the category: non-fiction, inspirational.  He is currently working on his new projects: Vampire Samurai, Books I and III, which include the characters from his novella, Sword of the Undead.

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