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.

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.This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. 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. This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. 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.andlt BRandgt andlt BRandgt Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in andlt iandgt Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imaginationandlt /iandgt have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century.andlt BRandgt andlt BRandgt andlt bandgt Mystery stories include:andlt /bandgt andlt ulandgt andlt liandgt The Human Chairandlt /liandgt andlt liandgt The Caterpillarandlt /liandgt andlt liandgt Two Crippled Menandlt /liandgt andlt liandgt The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Pictureandlt /liandgt andlt /ulandgt Review

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Japanese tales of mystery & imagination