Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Uketsu’s horror-mystery novel Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year. Originally published ...

The Japanese horror novelist is a creator of mysteries and a mystery himself. Working under a pseudonym and notorious for never showing his face—in all public appearances he wears a blank papier-mâché ...

The book reviews have been written by Shinie Antony. When bestsellers blending mystery and horror by an anonymous Japanese ...

TOKYO — He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his signature mode of art. Uketsu, whose name literally translates to “rain ...

Uketsu, trans. from the Japanese by Jim Rion. HarperVia, $17.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-343308-3 Japanese horror artist and writer Uketsu makes a triumphant international debut with this ...

Known for his distinctive storytelling style blending prose with an abundance of visual elements including diagrams, drawings, and illustrations, Uketsu has drawn attention not only in Japan but ...