Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edowaga RampoÆs best stories[HTML_REMOVED]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.

Hirai Taro (1894 – 1965), much more familiar as Edogawa Rampo, was the first modern writer of mysteries in Japan. The author's pen name is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allen Poe. He was the author of novels, short stories, and studies of the mystery genre.