The stories take place during Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate and the rule of Tokugawa Ienari and center around the title character, a sleepy-eyed, outlaw swordsman who is the son of a Japanese mother and a foreign father, who was conceived during a Black Mass.
In the second part of the novel, the arena shifts to the city of Cochin and to the world of Black Mass and its followers.
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Harve Presnell starred in the film as a producer of horror films who arranges in his studio a Black Mass.
A brief extract from the track "The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell" can be heard in the Hammer Film Productions film Dracula AD 1972.