Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edowaga RampoÆs best stories—bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary "mentor," Edgar Allan Poe.
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edowaga RampoÆs best stories—bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary "mentor," Edgar Allan Poe.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804803199 (0804803196)
Publish date: December 15th 1989
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Asian Literature,
Crime,
Horror,
Japan,
Short Stories,
Japanese Literature,
Gothic
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a collection of assorted short stories, ranging from straight-up crime stories to detective tales and even some oddities that aspire toward the man who inspired his pen name. The stories were varying levels of engaging, and none ever bored me or prompte...
The author was clearly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe (in Japanese it is pronounced Edogawa Rampo. I had to repeat it a few many times to connect the names). These short stories are very well written, almost of all them in 1st person. Most of them are mystery, about crimes, and all the characters are...
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