Book excerpt: The city of Yharnam: an ancient, gothic metropolis and home to the Healing Church. 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. In a world of gods and monsters, sanity is merely subjective, and fear and blood are sanctified. Hunters now stalk the streets in search of beasts as the moon hangs ominously low in Yharnam’s sky. But as uncertainty fills the air, and the thirst for blood becomes insatiable, the hunters become the hunted…