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$20 236 pgs 6″ x 8″

Little Hiroshi, embarrassed about the gaudy overalls his beloved grandmother knitted for him. Cute Mariko, jealous about her baby brother. Sweet Sachiko, worried about the iron she forgot to turn off before leaving on a family trip. Ordinary human feelings, understandable mistakes—leading to horrific disaster and scarring regret. If you assume childhood is golden for everyone, you’re wrong…DEAD wrong!

From the shadowy back pages of bright and sunny shojo magazines comes HIDE AND SEEK, a collection of twelve tales of trauma by Naono Yoshiko from the early 1970s. With an essay by the author narrating her unique career in manga and the stories behind her emotionally indelible comics, HIDE AND SEEK is the seventh volume of SMUDGE, a line of vintage horror, occult, and dark fantasy manga curated and translated by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg and published by Living the Line.

(cover is provisional and may change before publication.)