Strange buildings / Uketsu ; translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uketsu, author.

Contributor:

Rion, Jim, translator.

Standardized Title:

Hen'na ie 2: 11 no Madorizu. English

変な家2 ～11の間取り図～. English.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Dwellings--Fiction.

Dwellings.

Architecture--Details--Fiction.

Architecture.

Logic puzzles--Fiction.

Logic puzzles.

Haunted houses--Fiction.

Haunted houses.

Architecture, Domestic--Japan--Fiction.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture--Psychological aspects--Fiction.

Floor plans--Japan--Fiction.

Floor plans.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

Horror fiction.

Physical Description:

382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First HarperVia edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from Japanese.

Summary:

"From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a new unsettling mystery -- eleven strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. After receiving multiple tips from his devoted readership, a writer fascinated by the occult put together eleven case files, each featuring its very own strange building. Each of the eleven structures has a floor plan that conceals a disturbing architectural quirk: from disappearing rooms and a hallway that leads nowhere to apartments with no means of escape. Each building tells its own chilling story. And each is part of a grander puzzle. Look closely . . . and you'll see that everything is connected. It all leads to a revelation so horrifying you won't want to believe it. Through warped floor plans, cryptic diary entries, and a journalist's exposé, readers are invited to follow along as the writer and his friend Kurihara try to unravel the truth behind these buildings. Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu's dark mysteries. Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, of them all."-- Book jacket flap.

Contents:

The hallway to nowhere

Nuturing darkness

The watermill in the woods

The mousetrap house

The house where it happened

The hall of rebirth

Uncle's house

The string phone

Footsteps to murder

No escape

The vanishing room

Kurihara's deductions.

Notes:

Translation of: Hen'na ie 2: 11 no Madorizu.

Translation of: 変な家2 ～11の間取り図～.

"Originally published as HENNA IE 2-11 NO MADORIZU- in Japan in 2023"-- Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780063514096

0063514095

9780063517806

0063517809

OCLC:

1543497508

Publisher Number:

90104655407