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 ...

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 ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The Japanese horror novelist is a creator of mysteries and a mystery himself. Working under a pseudonym and notorious for never showing his ...

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 ...