Japanese Gothic

This book is a complete mindf*ck and I loved every minute of it – MIA BALLARDA spectacular, thought-provoking, and chilling story … For fans of disorienting, heartbreakingly beautiful nightmares * Library Journal *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 KIMAudacious, surreal and doggedly elusive, an elegantly mind-boggling twist on the haunted house oeuvre … Kylie Lee Baker blends visceral feats of bloody gore with dizzying poetry, leaving the reader as uncertain as Sen and Lee are, compelled by the power of place to stay in the house until revelation comes. An exquisite expression of human pain held tight across the centuries. – LEIGH RADFORDA heady puzzle box of story - the ones we are told and the ones we tell ourselves to survive. Intricate, sensuous, and haunting, the strange truth at the center of two shared mysteries unfurls in fragile, mesmerizing layers. Utterly sublime – OLIVIE BLAKEJapanese 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 VEENA mesmerizing, beautifully crafted story that breathes new life into the haunted house genre. Ghosts dwell between every page – MARCUS KLIEWERAn eerie and unrelenting tale of two lives, two time periods, and one singular horror soaked in blood and sorrow – CHUCK WENDIGAn astounding tapestry of blood, time, history, and guilt: Japanese Gothic is bold and ambitious and executed with a master’s touch. Pick this up. – ANDREW JOSEPH WHITEIntriguing, disturbing and beautifully constructed - everything I look for in a literary horror. I couldn’t put Japanese Gothic down – RACHELLE ATALLAA breathless collision of timelines, cultures, and destinies in this impressive horror outing… In wrenching prose, Baker renders her characters both deeply flawed and profoundly human… It’s as gruesome as it is un-put-downable * Publishers Weekly *

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.