Strange Houses A Novel

"Deliciously unsettling and refreshingly unique, Strange Houses will lure you in and keep you captive with every clever twist." - Kristen Perrin, New York Times bestselling author of How to Solve Your Own Murder

Praise for Uketsu

"I loved it! It has the twists and fair-play style of a Golden Age whodunit, mixed with a wonderfully innovative use of illustrations. Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels." - G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller Murdle

"A labyrinthine and multilayered horror mystery, full of cryptic images . . . wonderfully complex and carefully crafted . . . This is a story where revelations and new questions wait around every corner, and Uketsu keeps readers guessing until the very end." - New York Times Book Review

"I'm hooked on these chilling and twisted mysteries. Give me everything Uketsu writes - I'll read it in a single day, and I will not be accepting interruptions." - Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"Uketsu's strange riddles are chilling and addictive - I couldn't put it down." - R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface

"Dare you say what you see? Not if it's between the unnerving pages of Strange Pictures by anonymous Japanese enigma Uketsu. . . . This refreshingly original, eerie treat of a puzzle invites the reader to immerse themselves in the darkest of mysteries. So captivating I read it in a day. So disturbing I thought about it all night. Uketsu is a disrupter, the master of quiet horror." - Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal

"[A] triumphant international debut ... with a surprisingly strong emotional core that will keep readers glued to the page until the unsettling conclusion. This intricate puzzle box is a must for horror fans." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Part Rubik's Cube, part Russian doll, part kaleidoscope and altogether irresistible. Strange Pictures is heady, giddy, genre-blurring stuff and so fizzy with invention and possibility that I almost pity the next novel I read." - A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window and End of Story

"A creepy little delight of a brainteaser . . . Strange Pictures is innovative and a lot of fun." - The Guardian

"Already a sensation in Japan, this unconventional story detail[ing] nine simple drawings and the dark secret that ties them together. . . . is as creative as it is fleet and offers a whirlwind ride." - Variety

"Uketsu expertly builds sprawling layers of bizarre revelations, and remarkably convinces with his controlled, methodical explanations about once-powerful multigenerational families, inheritance, sacrifice, loyalty. The angular, crisp floorplans enhancing the pages throughout underscore a sense of careful, contained planning, enticing and enthralling readers to undoubtedly believe. . . . Japan's enigmatic YouTube personality Uketsu returns with another perplexingly horrific mystery, Strange Houses, likely to unnerve yet certain to engross. - Shelf Awareness