Strange Pictures

<p>“<strong>Uketsu is a disrupter, the master of quiet horror.”</strong>—<strong>Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of <em>The Appeal</em></strong></p><p><strong>“Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels.”</strong>—<strong>G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller <em>Murdle</em></strong></p><p><strong>The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (<em>Publishers Weekly</em> 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.</strong></p><p>An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .</p><p>A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.</p><p>A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.</p><p>A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.</p><p>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.<em> Strange Pictures </em>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.</p><p><em>Translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion</em></p>