Japanese Gothic: A gothic dual-timeline novel of ghosts, hauntings and redemption

In "Japanese Gothic," Kylie Lee Baker delivers a gothic dual-timeline horror novel steeped in Japanese mythology, ghosts, and the search for redemption. In 2026, Lee Turner flees after a violent memory lapse, retreating to his father’s isolated Japanese house where animals refuse to tread and a sword-wielding woman haunts the night. Centuries earlier in 1877, Sen, a young samurai in hiding, struggles to please a monster wearing her father’s face, and glimpses Lee’s figure as a foreboding omen outside her window.

The house behind the sword ferns binds two fractured souls, each wrestling with guilt and a dangerous legacy of lies. This psychological thriller blends supernatural horror and historical fiction, forcing Lee and Sen to confront a buried evil and an unsettling truth: one of them is a ghost and one story cannot be trusted.