Strange Pictures by Uketsu (translated by Jim Rion) is a genre-bending Japanese mystery-horror novel originally released as
The core of the book is its 12 illustrations. In a standard print book, you look at a 5x7 inch image. In a basic PDF, zooming is clunky. But in a well-formatted EPUB, you can pinch, zoom, and pan across high-resolution scans of the "strange pictures." You need this capability. Uketsu hides details in the margins, in the reflection of a window, in the weave of a doll’s hair. Without zoom, you miss 50% of the horror.
In an era of predictable jump scares and gory splatterpunk, Uketsu’s Strange Pictures is a breath of stale, cold air. It is intelligent, meticulous, and genuinely strange in the best sense of the word.
: An art teacher, brutally murdered on a mountain, leaves a final scenery sketch on the back of a receipt that serves as a complex dying message.
Strange Pictures by Uketsu (translated by Jim Rion) is a genre-bending Japanese mystery-horror novel originally released as
The core of the book is its 12 illustrations. In a standard print book, you look at a 5x7 inch image. In a basic PDF, zooming is clunky. But in a well-formatted EPUB, you can pinch, zoom, and pan across high-resolution scans of the "strange pictures." You need this capability. Uketsu hides details in the margins, in the reflection of a window, in the weave of a doll’s hair. Without zoom, you miss 50% of the horror.
In an era of predictable jump scares and gory splatterpunk, Uketsu’s Strange Pictures is a breath of stale, cold air. It is intelligent, meticulous, and genuinely strange in the best sense of the word.
: An art teacher, brutally murdered on a mountain, leaves a final scenery sketch on the back of a receipt that serves as a complex dying message.