Japanese tales of mystery and imagination
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Japanese tales of mystery and imagination
Tuttle Pub., c2012
2nd ed
- : pbk
- Other Title
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乱歩短編集
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"First edition, 1956"--T.p. verso
Distributed by: North Clarendon, Vt. : Tuttle Pub. (North America, Latin America & Europe); Tokyo : Tuttle Pub. (Japan); Singapore : Berkeley Books (AsiaPacific)
Bibliography: p. [221]-222
Contents of Works
- Excess, alienation and ambivalence : Edogawa Rampo's tales of mystery and imagination / by Patricia Welch
- The human chair
- The psychological test
- The catepillar
- The cliff
- The hellof mirrors
- The twins
- The red chamber
- Two crippled men
- The traveler with the pasted rag picture
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe.
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. 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.
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.
Mystery stories include:
The Human Chair
The Caterpillar
Two Crippled Men
The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture
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