Strange Pictures by Uketsu

Strange Pictures

Uketsu

Unique and meticulously drawn, this series of interconnected murder-mysteries may not be like anything you have experienced before. Each chapter is accompanied by unsettlingly enigmatic illustrations that place you in the role of detective, and add a profoundly eerie sense of the uncanny. As words wrap around the drawings, you will find yourself haunted by the characters within, the emotional torment they carry, and the darkness they unleash.

Extract

The woman picked up the rock again. She drove it into Iwata's eye socket. With a spike of pain, his vision clouded and went red. He tried to blink. He felt blood leaking from his eye down the side of his head. 

It was all going wrong. He could not move. He could not see.

But Iwata refused to give up. He knew he would have a chance. He could turn it around. He still believed it. But at the same time, he had another thought. 

If he died here, as a journalist, he had to leave something behind. Some information. 

Inside his sleeping bag, he moved his hands, straining his wrists to the limit. He teased a pencil and receipt from his pocket and folded the paper. Using his fingers to feel the position of the folds, he began to draw.

Parallels
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
  • Ring by Koji Suzuki