Historical Horror – Fiction

Kylie Lee Baker’s Japanese Gothic: A Folk Horror Novel of Japanese Mythology, Murder, and Family Duty Across Two Timelines follows two people living centuries apart. In 2026, Lee flees New York after killing his college roommate, seeking refuge at his father’s home in Japan, where something is terribly wrong. In 1877, a young samurai lives in exile. One is a ghost, one story is a lie, and something chilling is hiding. In Tananarive Due’s Mazywood, filmmaker Johnny – the grandson of famous Black actress Mazelle Washington – brings his family to Mazywood, her secluded California lodge, expecting a quiet retreat. Instead, he uncovers a legacy of rage, secrets, and terror that’s been haunting his family for generations. Through flashbacks to Hollywood’s Golden Age, Johnny pieces together Mazelle’s buried past – and discovers a monster that has been hidden for decades. And in Elizabeth Kostova’s Mystery Play: A Novel, Jay Turner – the last living member of a family of historians hunted by forces connected to one of history’s most notorious monsters – receives an antique leather-bound volume. It’s one of a set commissioned by Vlad Țepeș, also known as Dracula, just before his death in…