Strange Houses

From the bestselling author of Strange Pictures comes another sensation from Japan’s master of unsettling mysteries. In Strange Houses, Uketsu transforms the very walls around us into a maze of terror, where warped floor plans and hidden rooms conceal a conspiracy too sinister to ignore.

When a writer with a taste for the macabre is asked to examine a house for sale in Tokyo, he is at first disarmed by its airy, welcoming interior. But the floor plans tell a different story: narrow “dead spaces” between walls, doorways that lead nowhere, and a design that seems intentionally disturbing. With the help of his friend Kurihara, an architect, he begins to unravel the secrets embedded in the blueprint.

Soon, questions multiply. Why did the former owners vanish without a trace? Why does a body suddenly surface nearby? And what connects this house to another with equally impossible architecture?

Structured around chilling diagrams that force readers to play detective, Strange Houses lures you deeper into its sinister geometry—until every hallway, every corner, every hidden door feels like a trap waiting to be sprung.