Book excerpt: The city of Yharnam: an ancient, gothic metropolis and home to the Healing Church. The Healing Church is known for its miraculous blood-based curatives, of which many – citizens and travellers alike – seek to exploit. Recent days have seen the city fall foul to a nightmarish plague known as the Ashen Blood disease, the source of which remains a mystery. Trapped in a threatening world of gods and monsters, where reality is never what it seems, one man resolves to welcome the madness, and the truth it may reveal…