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Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

by Rampo Edogawa · 1956 · 222 pages

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Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's 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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Genre
horrormysterycrimethrillerfantasy
Themes
gothic
Setting
japanasia
Mood
creepy
Subject
psychology
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 222 pages
Form
short stories

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