Evernight
Horror
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (Evernight April 2026 Exclusive)
£24.00
About the product
From the critically acclaimed, USA TODAY bestselling, New York Times Top 100, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng and Hell to Pay, a lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, following two people living centuries apart who discover a door between their worlds.
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.
October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.
One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.
Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
Our Evernight Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @marymetzgr; design by
- Full colour art and foil on the hardback (by @glassbearer)
- Digitally printed edges (by @perrycuffdesigns)
- Illustrated endpapers (by peijinsart); different front and back
- Bonus content
- Hand signed by the author
- Japanese FMC and secondary characters
- Standalone adult gothic psychological horror
Photos by @bookwormgram
"At its heart, Japanese Gothic is a triumph, deftly constructed and frequently hair-raising." —BookPage, starred review
"An eerie and unrelenting tale of two lives, two time periods, and one singular horror soaked in blood and sorrow." —Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of The Staircase in the Woods
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