A review by sriq
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo

Edogawa Rampo, father of the Japanese mystery story, took his pen name from a transliteration of Edgar Allan Poe. In many ways Rampo's stories resemble Poe's, with their playful claustrophobia and scientific sensory distortions. The best tales in this collection read like dissected horror: when wearing your skin feels uncomfortable in the sudden awareness of all the meat that you are. Recommended if you enjoy the psychological body horror of films like The Fly, or the grotesque manga of Junji Ito.