Japanese Gothic: The all-new haunted house Samurai horror from Sunday Times bestselling author of Bat Eater!
Apr 2026 · Hachette UK
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About this ebook
Kylie Lee Baker returns with another witty, gory, horror PHENOMENON
'WOW. This book is now burned into my brain for so many reasons! I don't recommend you read right before you go to sleep...' 🦇
'I was not expecting quite so much gore in this book (when they said it was gory, they meant gory) but WOW' 🦇
'Harrowing, gripping and deeply creepy throughout. From the first chapter I was hooked, letting out gasps in shock and desperate to continue' 🦇
2025
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 🦇
'WOW. This book is now burned into my brain for so many reasons! I don't recommend you read right before you go to sleep...' 🦇
'I was not expecting quite so much gore in this book (when they said it was gory, they meant gory) but WOW' 🦇
'Harrowing, gripping and deeply creepy throughout. From the first chapter I was hooked, letting out gasps in shock and desperate to continue' 🦇
2025
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 🦇
About the author
Kylie Lee Baker is the Sunday Times bestselling author of adult horror novel Bat Eater 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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