Japanese Gothic (Exclusive OwlCrate Edition)
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Japanese Gothic is a lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, where two people living centuries apart 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.
Features for this OwlCrate Edition:
- Signed by Kylie Lee Baker
- Dust jacket art designed by @maena.paillet
- Reversible dust jacket art designed by @_yodaka
- Hardcover case art designed by @kotaro_chiba
- End page art designed by @marcomazzoniart and @heyatlascreative
- Stencilled edges designed by @maena.paillet
- Author signature page designed by @marinabettart
- Author letter bound into the book
- Bonus content
- Book size: 6” x 9”
Japanese Gothic is a 2 (Mild) on our Spice Meter.
This book contains:
- Abandonment
- Abduction / Kidnapping
- Abuse
- Addiction
- Alcohol Use
- Animal Death/Cruelty
- Assault
- Blood
- Gore
- Bodily Harm
- Body Horror
- Death (including of a parent and child)
- Child Abuse
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Drug Use
- Emotional Abuse
- Emotional Manipulation
- Gaslighting
- Graphic Violence
- Grief
- Guns / Weapons
- Illness
- Injury
- Isolation
- Institutionalization
- Loss
- Medical Content
- Mental Illness
- Murder
- Parental Abuse
- Parental Neglect
- Parental Trauma
- Psychological Horror
- PTSD
- Self-Harm
- Sexism
- Substance Abuse
- Substance Use
- Suicide
- Torture
- Trauma
- Violence
- Violence In A School Setting
- War
- War Crimes
Please note: The content warnings listed above don’t cover all content included in this book.
CONTENT WARNING
Featured in the May 2026 'Beneath the Sword Ferns' Quarterly Horror box.
Photos by: @thebookscript (on Instagram)
Graphic by: @heyatlascreative (on Instagram)
