Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

Kylie Lee Baker returns with another addictive, gory, horror PHENOMENON
'A blood-soaked, masterful blend of horror and mystery' GUARDIAN
'Blood-slicked, unsettling and immersive' DAILY MAIL
'A lush, unnerving ghost story' NEW YORK TIMES
'Brilliantly inventive. A must read - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' MONIKA KIM
'A haunted house horror with a samurai twist' IGN
'Audacious, surreal . . . An exquisite expression of human pain held tight across centuries' LEIGH RADFORD

2026
Lee can't remember exactly where he hid the body, but he can remember the blood. Hiding out at his father's centuries-old home in Japan, Lee knows something is wrong with him, and he knows it has something to do with his mother's disappearance almost a decade ago.

1877
A female samurai, Sen, stalks the borders of her home to protect her family from slaughter after the abolition of the samurai class. She's not sure how they'll ever survive, not without her father, who has returned from war with a different soul behind his eyes.

When Lee and Sen find one another through a door between their worlds, they're both looking for answers. But what they find in the creaking old house they share is beyond what either of them could imagine...

PRAISE FOR THE NEWEST VOICE IN HORROR:
'A profound reminder of the true horrors that lurk in the world' TORI BOVALINO
'A serial killer mystery and a heartbreaking portrayal of grief' KIRSTY LOGAN
'This book dug its claws into me and would not let go' LING LING HUANG
'Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quaking' ALMA KATSU
'A poignant, searing portrait of the hostility and violence that plagued pandemic-era NYC' VERONICA G. HENRY

PRAISE FOR JAPANESE GOTHIC!
Brilliantly inventive, sending a prickle down your spine as you struggle to distinguish between reality and delusionA must read - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough! -- MONIKA KIM
Japanese Gothic is many things: A haunting. A mystery. A ghost story. A fairy tale. A love story. Above all, it's a compelling and heartbreaking piece of art about how parental expectations can damage us, and how love can, if not quite heal us, at least set us free -- JOHANNA VAN VEEN
A mesmerizing, beautifully crafted story that breathes new life into the haunted house genre. Ghosts dwell between every page -- MARCUS KLIEWER
An eerie and unrelenting tale of two lives, two time periods, and one singular horror soaked in blood and sorrow -- CHUCK WENDIG
PRAISE FOR KYLIE LEE BAKER'S INVENTIVE HORROR NOVELS
This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts. This book shook me in all the best ways -- GRADY HENDRIX
Bat Eater is a compelling, gory, ghostly romp, and it's a righteous battle cry aimed into the racist heart of the pandemic hellscape. You won't be able to stop turning pages while rooting for Cora -- PAUL TREMBLAY
I smashed through Bat Eater - shocking, visceral and haunted by more than ghosts: trauma, rage, grief, racism, crime scene clean ups and COVID paranoia. Bat Eater will swoop in like a bat out of hell, swallow you whole and leave no crumbs -- ALICE SLATER
Operating on the ragged edge of obsession, madness and rage, never has the phrase darkly compelling felt more appropriate * Daily Mail *

Kylie Lee Baker is the Sunday Times bestselling author of adult horror novels Bat Eater and Japanese Gothic, and YA novels The Keeper of Night duology and The Scarlet Alchemist duology. She grew up in Boston, but lived in Atlanta, Salamanca and Seoul before returning to Massachusetts. Her work is informed by her heritage (Chinese, Japanese and Irish) as well as her experiences living abroad as both a student and teacher. She has a BA in Creative Writing and Spanish from Emory University and an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. In her free time, she plays the cello, watches horror movies and bakes too many cookies.

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ISBN 13	9781399755221
ISBN 10	1399755226
Title	Japanese Gothic
Author	Kylie Lee Baker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2026-04-30
Number of pages	368
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.