Edogawa Rampo is the pen name of Japanese author Hirai Taro, his writing was much influenced by western writers of mystery and the macabre, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This collection brings you a selection of his finest short stories.

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...