Edogawa Rampo
Founder of modern Japanese detective fiction who took his pen name as a phonetic homage to Edgar Allan Poe. His macabre, psychologically intense stories created the template for Japanese crime and horror fiction.
Works
- The Strange Tale of Panorama IslandPsychological mystery involving a man obsessed with creating human life
- The Beast in the ShadowsPsychological thriller exploring obsession and hidden human darkness
- The Black LizardMystery and mayhem involving a master criminal black lizard
- The CaterpillarPsychological horror about a man's obsessive descent into madness