![]() Go ahead, just do a quick internet search for Rampo’s “The Human Chair” (人間椅子/Ningen Isu, 1925), then come back and join us. In Japan, Tarō/Rampo is revered as one of the most popular writers of detective fiction (including young adult mysteries featuring the Boy Detectives Gang), but it has been his unnerving strain of horror fiction that has seared his name and notoriety upon the international scene. ![]() It’s taken even the most obsessive American horror genre devotees almost an entire century to even begin to catch on to, much less catch up with, the strange fictional universes of prolific popular Japanese author 平井 太郎/Hirai Tarō, better known in his native country and the rest of the world under his nom de plume Edogawa Rampo (an affectation emulating the phonetics of his own favorite author, Edgar Allan Poe). Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show creator Suehiro Maruo echoes the decadent era in which its source story by Hirai Taro (aka ‘Edogawa Rampo’) was originally written, while anticipating one of the 21st century’s most infamous American political and sexual scandals ![]() The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Panorama-tou Kitan) - Last Gasp, 2013 ![]()
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