Goth

About

Before they were friends, he had already noticed her — specifically, her hands. Beautiful, enchanting hands that he wanted for himself. In a town terrorized by a serial killer who collects the hands of his victims, this obsession takes on a meaning far darker than adolescent infatuation. Then one day, she asks him to teach her how to smile. Otsuichi's cult novel pairs two teenagers who are drawn to the macabre — not as thrill-seekers but as people who genuinely understand darkness better than light. Their partnership, half friendship and half something more unsettling, drives a series of interconnected mysteries that blur the line between investigating violence and being fascinated by it. A horror novel disguised as a love story — or a love story that can only exist in the proximity of horror.