The Secret and Shocking Truth Hidden in a Five-Year-Old's Drawings
Everyone, every home has its own secrets.

The strength of this novel, which unfolds at a fast pace in a creepy atmosphere, lies above all in its character setting.
“The five-year-old’s character is so three-dimensional that he feels like a real boy.
As the reviewer Kirkus Reviews put it, “It makes you believe in the supernatural mystery” (Kirkus Reviews), each character is three-dimensional and vivid, and seems alive and breathing.
What about the parents of a child who is lovable but has strange behavior, or a child who has reasonable and refined manners?
They seem like the epitome of a proud middle-class people, highly educated and socially and politically correct, but their occasional outbursts of illogicality and scientifically disguised self-righteousness expose their sense of superiority.
This novel goes beyond being a mere genre novel, but instead sharply criticizes social inequality while warmly and lovingly embracing those who are hurt within it.
The three-dimensionality of these characters is maximized in the protagonist, Mallory.
A vivid portrayal of a nineteen-year-old girl, a promising high school track and field athlete, struggling with guilt and grief after the death of her younger sister and the subsequent spiral into addiction.
After 18 months of sobriety and working as a nanny for wealthy New Jersey families, Mallory finds the stability she so desperately craves.
He heals past wounds by swimming in his own pool, running around the neighborhood every evening, and bonding with his adorable five-year-old.
A boy who loves to draw draws ordinary pictures like trees, rabbits, and balloons, but one day he draws a strange picture of a mysterious man dragging a woman's corpse into the forest.
As the days go by, the child's work becomes more and more eerie, and the once crooked and clumsy lines of the drawings steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and vivid sketches that far surpass the child's abilities.
Mallory begins to suspect that this is part of an old, unsolved murder case, channeled from a supernatural force lingering in the woods behind her house.
Can Mallory decipher the painting and uncover its secrets before it's too late?

What begins as a traditional thriller unfolds as a creepy, supernatural horror envelops the reader, and Teddy's illustrations make it all the more vivid and realistic.
Readers will experience the true essence of suspense as they follow the clever and creative clues laid down by the author.


The meeting of narrative and imagery, the horror and thrill are further maximized!
What do these increasingly bizarre and elaborate drawings indicate?

Jason Rekulik uses illustrations in an engaging way to engage 21st-century readers who are distracted by all kinds of media.
He, who had loved horror movies featuring supernatural beings since childhood, recalled this scene.
“While Mom and Dad fight in the kitchen, the little ones draw on the table with crayons.
My mom is worried because she hears strange noises at night.
Dad claims it was the wind (or branches, or raccoons).
Then the child leaves the kitchen with a mysterious smile, and the camera glides over the table to reveal the child's handiwork: a clumsy family portrait covered in bloody crayon.
The word 'MURDER' is spelled backwards.
And then Mom and Dad's heads get cut off!" The author says he used to feel something incredibly creepy in the clumsy drawings of children.
And this interest led me to write Hidden Pictures, a new novel about a boy who draws strange and eerie pictures.
He decided that novels were the perfect medium for his concept, because he could insert actual pictures into the book, and readers could look at them for as long as they wanted.
And if there's a mystery in the story, the pictures can provide subtle clues to its solution.
The author has explored the possibilities of illustrated novels through many novels he has planned over the years, and has produced successful results.
Through this book, readers will be able to experience the essence of Jason Rekulik's worldview, which has established a new realm in genre fiction.