Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Taro Hirai took his pen name from Edgar Allan Poe and became the founding figure of Japanese mystery and horror writing. These stories are fevered and grotesque, full of voyeurs, doubles, human chairs and obsessives who go much too far. Strange, unsettling and unlike anything in the Western canon. Guillermo del Toro recommends the collection as feverish, bizarre tales by the master Rampo.