VIZ Media’s Haikasoru literary science fiction imprint explores the domestic life of monsters in the release of A Small Charred Face on September 19^th.

A Small Charred Face was written by Kazuki Sakuraba, whose previous critically acclaimed novel, Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas, was also published by Haikasoru. A Small Charred Face will be released in print with an MSRP of $15.99 U.S. / $21.99 CAN. An eBook edition will also debut on September 19^th in the Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBooks Store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook Book Store, the Kobo eBooks Store, and the Google Play Store.

In A Small Charred Face, a boy name Kyo is saved from the precipice of death by Bamboo, a vampire born of the tall grasses. They start an enjoyable yet strange shared life together, Kyo and the gentle Bamboo. But for Bamboo, communication with a human being is the greatest sin.