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Monika Kim

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Monika Kim is the Sunday Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part. She graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a B.A. in Communication and has worked since 2016 for an environmental agency in Southern California, focusing on environmental justice, outreach, and youth education. A second-generation Korean American living in Los Angeles, Kim learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated from Seoul in 1985. Through her books, she explores the Asian American experience and feminist issues.

horrorliterary fiction

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Monika Kim's Newest Book

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Molka

novel · First published 2026

In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung’s network reaches throughout the entire building. He sees every entrance. Every lobby. Every bathroom. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull up his favorite images of them and remember who holds the real power. Until one, Dahye, sets herself apart from the rest. Dahye, ever the romantic, yearns to be cherished after years of living in the shadow of her perfect older sister, who tragically drowned years ago. Only her boyfriend seems to appreciate Dahye. He’s rich, handsome, and generous—and she’d do anything to hold on to the happiness he brings her. But when a hidden camera scandal rocks the city’s elites, Dahye’s dreams of a fairy-tale romance twist into a grotesque nightmare. Her boyfriend abandons her. Her parents reject her. Her grip on reality begins to shatter as visions of her dead sister suddenly appear. And as Junyoung’s interest in Dahye turns to obsession, and the truths of their troubled lives are revealed, Dahye must go to extreme lengths to bring the truth to light . . .

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The Eyes Are the Best Part

It is Monika Kim's debut novel and the clearest entry point to her horror fiction.

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Novels (3)
  1. The Eyes Are the Best Part

    novel · 2024

    Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s…

  2. Molka

    novel · 2026

    In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung’s network reaches throughout the entire building. He sees every entrance. Every lobby. Every bathroom. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull…

  3. What Hungers in the Dark

    novel · 2027