What Hungers in the Dark

What Hungers in the Dark is a seductive sapphic vampire epic which spans from 19th-century Hanseong to contemporary New York City, Los Angeles, and Seoul.SEOUL, 2022. When her brother vanishes, Charlotte Chang races to Seoul in search of him. Desperate for answers, Charlotte is drawn into the orbit of Youngcheol Kim, head of a billion-dollar dynasty, and his enigmatic yet dangerous family. According to Kim and his three impossibly beautiful daughters, Julian left willingly. Charlotte is convinced he was forced. HANSEONG, 1891. Byungho, the cherished son of a powerful magistrate, is caught in a forbidden love with another man. His pitiless father, Kim Gwangsu, will go to any length to protect their legacy, and what begins as a punishment quickly spirals into a bloody transformation that will reshape their family for generations. A glittering and gruesome Korean Gothic, What Hungers in the Dark is Crazy Rich Asians meets K-Pop Demon Hunters from Monika Kim, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part and Molka. PRAISE FOR MONIKA KIM 'Brutal and unflinching' KYLIE LEE BAKER, BAT EATER 'Violent [...] wildly original' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'I was enticed from the first line' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER 'Combining feminist fury with creeping horror' EVE KELLMAN, HOW TO KILL A GUY IN TEN WAYS 'Smartly written . . . A writer to watch' BIG ISSUE