Edogawa Rampo

James B. Harris

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

The Human Chair

A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only one who can find him. A sequence of macabre and appalling events follows.

Beast in the Shadows

Aynalar Cehennemi ve Diger Öyküler

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

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Ranpo Edogawa Complete works

A chilling collection of some of the best stories by Hirai Taro, the first modern writer of mysteries in Japan and known to many as Edogawa Rampo, a pen name derived from the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allen Poe, explores the bizarre, blood-curdling, fantastic, strange, and the perverse, in a way fans of Poe will find right up their dark and scary alley.

Cuentos japoneses de misterio e imaginación

El lagarto negro

The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows

Black Lizard

The Gold Mask

Neraka Cermin

Rampo, la mirada perversa

Mirage

Los casos del detective Kogoro Akechi

Dos grandes clásicos de Edogawa Rampo, gran maestro del misterio japonés La lectura de La Lagartija Negra deja claras las razones que hicieron de este relato criminal el más famoso de la cultura japonesa moderna, varias veces llevada al cine. ¿Cómo no dejarse atrapar por el duelo a muerte entre la malvada criminal y el gran detective Kogoro Akechi? La Lagartija Negra es Rampo en estado puro: una ladrona de joyas tan mortal como hermosa, un duelo de disfraces de diabólica inteligencia y, por encima de todo, la habilidada para descargar los sorprendentes golpes de efecto. La Bestia entre las sombras ilumina otro aspecto de la maestría del autor, la capacidad de inundar el relato detectivesco de tensión amorosa.

LA LAGARTIJA NEGRA Y LA BESTIA ENTRE LAS SOMBRAS

Edogawa Rampo is the pen name of Japanese author Hirai Taro. Influenced in his early career by Western mystery writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he is one of Japan's most famous authors, and a true master of the short story form. This collection brings you a selection of his finest work, including 'The Human Chair' and 'The Hell Of Mirrors'.

The Edgar Allan Poe of Japan - Some Tales by Edogawa Rampo - With Some Stories Inspired by His Writings (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

In Edogawa Rampo’s "Moju: The Blind Beast", a deranged, scarred and sightless sculptor kidnaps a model and imprisons her in a psychedelic labyrinth of giant sculpted eyes and other outlandish body parts, before dismembering her in a fearful blood-orgy. Her limbs, head and torso are later found scattered throughout Tokyo. The blind killer continues his sexually-charged spree of amputation and decapitation, claiming several more victims before finally presenting his work at an acclaimed art exhibition in which the sculptures are a little too life-like for comfort... The most disturbing of Rampo’s novels, "Moju: The Blind Beast" is a classic of grinding horror and weird sex, tainted with a virulent black humour. It represents one of the earliest literary examples of the Japanese “erotic-grotesque” genre, in which such subjects as dismemberment, mutilation, coprophilia and cannibalism are presented in a perverse sexual context. This is a special ebook presentation of the first-ever English translation of Rampo’s classic.

Moju: The Blind Beast

Edogawa Rampo (1894-1965) bývá často označován jako japonský Edgar Allan Poe a i v současné době stále patří mezi nejoblíbenější autory detektivního žánru s hororovými a erotickými prvky. Mnoho jeho povídek bylo zfilmováno nebo zpracováno do podoby komiksů. V tomto příběhu do služeb markýze Ogavary vstupuje mladý Takehiko Shoji a zamiluje se do jeho manželky Yumiko. Zdá se, že jeho city opětuje, ale Shoji se cítí nesvůj: Himeda a Murakoshi, bývalí její milenci umírají za podezřelých okolností. Případu se ujímá proslulý detektiv Kogoro Akechi.

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