Japanese Gothic
The all-new haunted house Samurai horror from Sunday Times bestselling author of Bat Eater!
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Japanese Gothic
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Kylie Lee Baker
About this listen
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 . . .©2026 Kylie Lee Baker
Critic Reviews
PRAISE FOR JAPANESE GOTHIC!
Brilliantly inventive, sending a prickle down your spine as you struggle to distinguish between reality and delusion. A 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
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