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A review by fachrinaa
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo
5.0
What bizarre tales!
Edogawa Rampo is the father of modern Japan mystery, both in the detective sense and the more macabre sense. This collection features four tales of mystery and five tales of imagination.
The four tales of mystery do not follow the usual Western whodunit structure. In fact, in most of them, the culprit is the one telling the story. The tension arises from the way the story unfurls, especially regarding the way the culprit falls and exposes himself.
The five tales of imagination, though, are simply horrifying. There are no ghosts or sinister spirits here. The stories are mundane, everyday life, and it leaves the reader with the feeling that this might very well happen to you. They begin with this subtle unsettling feeling, where something is not quite right but you can't exactly say what it is. And then slowly things get more and more weird, until at the end you are left horrified at humans and their quest to satisfy their obsession.
Read this with the lights on and your back to the wall.
Edogawa Rampo is the father of modern Japan mystery, both in the detective sense and the more macabre sense. This collection features four tales of mystery and five tales of imagination.
The four tales of mystery do not follow the usual Western whodunit structure. In fact, in most of them, the culprit is the one telling the story. The tension arises from the way the story unfurls, especially regarding the way the culprit falls and exposes himself.
The five tales of imagination, though, are simply horrifying. There are no ghosts or sinister spirits here. The stories are mundane, everyday life, and it leaves the reader with the feeling that this might very well happen to you. They begin with this subtle unsettling feeling, where something is not quite right but you can't exactly say what it is. And then slowly things get more and more weird, until at the end you are left horrified at humans and their quest to satisfy their obsession.
Read this with the lights on and your back to the wall.