Strange Pictures

A runaway bestseller in Japan, Strange Pictures delivers a chilling new vision of horror where innocence and dread collide. For fans of Hidden Pictures and Junji Ito, this debut from the enigmatic YouTube sensation Uketsu transforms simple drawings into doorways to unspeakable truths.

A pregnant woman’s cheerful blog hides sinister warnings in her sketches.
A child’s picture of home carries a secret too dark to name.
A victim’s final drawing pulls an unsuspecting sleuth into a labyrinth of death and obsession.

Nine childlike images—each more unsettling than the last—form the spine of this disturbing puzzle, daring readers to connect their meanings and uncover the sinister thread binding them together. Uketsu, a masked figure whose rise to literary fame has captivated Japan, turns the ordinary into the uncanny, proving that horror often lives in plain sight.

Strange Pictures is not just a novel—it is an experience, an invitation to stare too long at what seems harmless, until the lines begin to shift, and the truth you see cannot be unseen.