edogawa ranpo japanese tales of mystery & imagination

Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japans golden age of crime and mystery fiction.

Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century. Edogawa Rampo, Takayuki Tatsumi (Foreword), Seth Jacobowitz (Translator) 4.19. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof 'psychological' murders and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid 'loves' of the women who sit on his handiwork. Buy the eBook Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo online from Australias leading online eBook store. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Edogawa Rampo is much more famous.'' - New York Times Book Review This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japans answer to Edgar Allan Poe. When a visiting American asked if the Japanese reading public didn't confuse Rampo with the real Edgar Allan Poe, he replied, 'Oh, no. Rampo took this name because he is a great admirer of Poe. Edogawa Ranpo, The Human Chair, in Edogawa Rampo sic, Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination, trans.

'Japan's most famous mystery story writer is named Edogawa Rampo.

Edogawa ranpo japanese tales of mystery & imagination