Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Tuttle Classics)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005D7V5W2
Pages no: 242
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...
11 years ago
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