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Strange Pictures
A Horror Novel by Uketsu
Subgenres:
- Mystery Horror,
- Psychological Horror,
- Japanese Horror,
- Amateur Sleuth,
- Illustrated Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Creepy mysteries built around unsettling drawings and hidden messages
- Stories where everyday objects become keys to disturbing secrets
- Piecing together clues from multiple eerie perspectives
The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) that has taken Japan by storm—an eerie fresh take on mystery-horror in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.
An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance.
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.
Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.
Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu—an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.
Translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.
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