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 ??
Rezensionen / Stimmen
PRAISE FOR JAPANESE GOTHIC! 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 PRAISE FOR BAT EATER 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 Baker successfully uses fear, both supernatural and human, to shine a spotlight on anti-Asian hate. Fans of creepy ghost stories and social horror will want to snap this up * Publisher's Weekly * Operating on the ragged edge of obsession, madness and rage, never has the phrase darkly compelling felt more appropriate * Daily Mail * Gory and haunting...will have you hooked from the get-go * USA TODAY *
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Höhe: 240 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-3997-5522-1 (9781399755221)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
