Yukito Ayatsuji

Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻行人) is the pen name of Naoyuki Uchida, a Japanese mystery and horror writer born in Kyoto in 1960.

He debuted in 1987, while a student at Kyoto University, with The Decagon House Murders, the novel that launched the shin honkaku ("new orthodox") movement in Japanese detective fiction and the long-running Mansion Murders series (including The Mill House Murders, The Labyrinth House Murders and The Clock House Murders).

He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel in 1992 for The Clock House Murders. His horror mystery Another (2009) grew into a franchise of sequels, manga and anime. He is married to the writer Fuyumi Ono.