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  • 2025
  • First HarperVia edition.

Strange houses

Uketsu

Jim Rion, Uketsu

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"From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan-unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms -- a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house's warped and unsettling floor plans. When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building's floor plans reveal a mysterious "dead space" hidden between its walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plans with his friend Kurihara, an architect, only to discover more unnerving details throughout. What is the true purpose behind the house's disturbing design? And what happened to the former owners who disappeared without a trace? When a body suddenly appears and a young woman reaches out about a second house, it soon becomes clear that the writer and his friend may be in over their heads."--

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Title Statement Strange houses / Uketsu ; translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.
Author Uketsu
Additional Contributors Rion, Jim
Uketsu
Publication New York: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,2025.
Edition First HarperVia edition.
Extent of Item 203 pages ;
ISBN 9780063433151 (trade paperback)
Other Number pr07892071
General Notes "Originally published as Hen na ie in Japan in 2021 by Futabasha Publishers Ltd., Tokyo."--Title page verso.
Languages Translated from the Japanese.
Summary "From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan-unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms -- a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house's warped and unsettling floor plans. When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building's floor plans reveal a mysterious "dead space" hidden between its walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plans with his friend Kurihara, an architect, only to discover more unnerving details throughout. What is the true purpose behind the house's disturbing design? And what happened to the former owners who disappeared without a trace? When a body suddenly appears and a young woman reaches out about a second house, it soon becomes clear that the writer and his friend may be in over their heads."--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Floor plans--Fiction
Missing persons--Fiction
By Location Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction
By Genre Horror fiction
Psychological fiction
Novels
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