Japanese Gothic

A Folk Horror Novel of Japanese Mythology, Murder, and Family Duty Across Two Timelines

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<strong><em>USA TODAY</em> Bestseller<br><em>New York Times</em> Most Anticipated Book for 2026<br><em>USA TODAY</em> Most Anticipated Books of 2026<br>Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Books of 2026</strong><br><strong>Book Riot "Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026"</strong><br><br><strong>From the critically acclaimed, <em>USA TODAY </em>bestselling, <em>New York Times </em>Top 100, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of <em>Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng</em> and<em> Hell to Pay</em>, a lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, following two people living centuries apart who discover a door between their worlds.</strong><br><br><strong>October, 2026</strong>: 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.<br><br><strong>October, 1877</strong>: 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.<br><br>One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.<br><br>Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.<br><br><strong>For readers who love:</strong><br><ul> <li><strong>Grady Hendrix and Stephen King</strong></li> <li><strong>Japanese mytholog</strong><strong>y</strong></li> <li><strong>Friendship and family themes</str

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781335001559

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

233 x 159 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA