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| Author | : Edogawa Ranpo |
| Publisher | : Zakuro Books |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Born as Hirai Tarō, Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was an influential author and critic known for his tales of the mysterious and macabre. His pseudonym is a rendering of Edgar Allen Poe using Japanese characters. Ranpo often dealt with themes of sexual perversion and the grotesque, as well as writing more conventional crime fiction. This is a collection of four of his darkest and most deviant short stories: ‘The Idol’ (人でなしの恋 , 1926); ‘Pomegranate’ (石榴 , 1934); ‘The Hand’ (指 , 1960); and ‘The Devouring Insects’ (虫 , 1929). ‘Pomegranate’ and ‘The Devouring Insects’ have previously been published under the title ‘Pomegranate and The Devouring Insects’. 'The Idol' and 'The Hand' are published here in English for the first time. Alexis J Brown is a translator living in London. Cover image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ichimatsu_ningy%C5%8D.jpg
| Author | : Yoko Ogawa |
| Publisher | : Picador |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2013-01-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250016177 |
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. An NPR Best Book of 2013
| Author | : Ranpo Edogawa |
| Publisher | : Peaks Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2019-07-30 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0463825802 |
The year is 1953. The Korean War is winding down. The Cold War is heating up. UFOs are appearing all over the world. Five flying saucers zoom across the skies of Tokyo. Then Ichiro Hirano's next-door neighbor is kidnapped by an alien lizard creature. That same creature is now stalking Ichiro's own sister. What do these space aliens hope to accomplish? Here again is the kind of mystery that only Kogoro Akechi and the Boy Detectives Club can hope to solve.
| Author | : Ranpo Edogawa |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9784902075250 |
Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, and exerts a massive influence on the popular and literary culture of today's Japan. The Edogawa Rampo Reader presents a selection of outstanding examples of his short fiction, and a selection of his non-fiction prose. Together, they present a full and accurate picture of Rampo as a major contributor to the Japanese literary scene, helping to clarify his achievements to the English-speaking world. All the content of the Rampo Reader is brand-new to English. His non-fiction work has never been translated into English before. This is the only place to find a comprehensive one-volume introduction to the world of Edogawa Rampo.
| Author | : Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2009-03-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307371336 |
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Brilliantly executed.” —Margaret Atwood “A page-turner and a heartbreaker.” —TIME “Masterly.” —Sunday Times As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
| Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
| Publisher | : London ; Edinburgh : H. Frowde |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1903 |
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| Author | : Yoko Ogawa |
| Publisher | : Picador |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2008-01-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429924950 |
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's? A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.
| Author | : Edogawa Rampo |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-05-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9784805311936 |
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
| Author | : Angela Carter |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2016-09-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1784871435 |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends âe" Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves âe" Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
| Author | : 芥川龍之介 |
| Publisher | : Praeger |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
There can be no doubt that [Akutagawa] had more individuality than any other writer of his time and has left in Japanese literature a mass of artistic work, often grotesque and curious, that, while it undoubtedly angers the proletarian experimenters who now hold the stage and fight with lusty pens and a highly developed class consciousness against all that he stood for, will continue to live as long as men go on treasuring the fancies their fellows from time to time set down with care on paper.--Glen W. Shaw
