Genres

↳  Psychological Horror, Architectural/Spatial Mystery, Uncanny Horror, Locked‑Room / Puzzle Whodunnit, and Novella.

Size

↳ 10.2 MB

Strange Houses follows an unnamed freelance writer with a penchant for the macabre is asked to review the floor plans of a secondhand Tokyo home. What starts as a simple consultation spirals into a chilling mystery when he and an architect friend notice bizarre architectural anomalies—“dead spaces,” hidden voids, impossible corridors—that defy logical explanation. As they investigate further, each unsettling discovery unravels dark family secrets, culminating in an eerie, ambiguous revelation that leaves many questions unanswered.

Trigger warnings

↳ This story contains content that might be troubling for some readers, including, but not limited to depictions of:

• Psychological Horror & Dread
  
  

• References to Death & Past Violence
  
  

• Disturbing Family Situations

• Implied Harm to Children
  
  

• Surreal or Occult Overtones