The Vampire & His Pleasant Companions summary: After Albert's transformation into a vampire, his life has been a same old, same old of switching between being a bat and a vampire, from day to night. However, life takes an unexpected turn when he gets stuck in a meat-processing plant in Nebraska and gets shipped off to Japan with nothing but his lunch, which gets frozen along the way. Faced with the difficulty of explaining his sudden nudity to the Japanese authorities and an inability to comprehend the native tongue, he must rely on his newfound allies to convince them of his true identity - that of a bat. His survival hinges on this crucial task.