β Scribed by Edogawa Rampo
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edowaga Rampoβs best storiesβbizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary "mentor," Edgar Allan Poe.
Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) was the first modern writer of mysteries in Japan, and long-time president of the Japan Mystery Writers' Club. Rampo derived his pen name from the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allan Poe, his literary muse.
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