Kind of a mid-quel to Newman's Anno Dracula series, this volume sees a boatload of exiles from Dracula's England (where he had married Queen Victoria, defeated van Helsing and set himself up in the open) seeking refuge in 1899 Meiji Japan, where the years of isolation have given rise to creatures as strange as the European vampires. This is very elaborate world-building, with references to anime and Japanese cinema that I am sure I did not fully appreciate.