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Strange Buildings

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Pages
382
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

The third book from the masked YouTube enigma Uketsu, and the second in the Strange Houses series. Eleven unsettling buildings, eleven floor plans—each concealing an architectural impossibility and a disturbing story: rooms that vanish, apartments with no way out, layouts that simply shouldn't exist. As an occult-obsessed writer gathers these cases, a chilling pattern emerges, and the structures prove to be pieces of something far larger and more sinister. A puzzle-driven horror-mystery in which the diagrams aren't decoration—they're the clues. Translated from the Japanese.

About the author

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Uketsu

Uketsu (雨穴) is a Japanese writer, YouTuber, and filmmaker known for mystery-horror stories told through floor plans, diagrams, and puzzle-like drawings. He is male but otherwise anonymous by design: he appears publicly only in a white papier-mâché mask and black bodysuit, with his voice digitally altered, and only a small circle of family, publisher staff, and collaborators know his real identity. He first gained a following on YouTube with unsettling short videos, then expanded his viral "Str...

Characters

Masahiko HikuraAntagonist

President of Hikura Homes and backer of the defunct Rebirth Congregation cult, whose architectural remodels drive the book's central conspiracy.

KuriharaSupporting

The architect who reads the eleven floor plans and pieces the isolated cases into a single theory; the same recurring investigator-architect from Uketsu's Strange Houses and Strange Pictures.

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