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![]() ![]() ![]() 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. In this short story collection, we dont see Akechi Kogor, as the stories took a turn from classical stories, to a peculiar twisting way. ![]() Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 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. The award to amateur mystery writers who had few or no novels published commercially since 1955, Edogawa Rampo Prize/. 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. Harris / ISBN 9784805311936 / 222-page paperback from Tuttle Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo, translated by James B. ![]()
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