Moju: The Blind Beast

書籍

Moju: The Blind Beast
　Edogawa Rampo
　訳：Anthony Whyte
　挿画：Eitar（竹中英太郎）
　平成21・2009年　Shinbaku Books
　21.5センチ×14センチ　──　125ページ　13.95ドル

Introduction
　Jack Hunter
　p5－9
Moju: The Blind Beast
　Edogawa Rampo
　p11－125

Introduction

　The Book
　Edogawa Rampo (1894－1965) was born Taro Hirai; his pen-name is a Japanese version of Edger Allan Poe, his literary hero. As well as writing mystery / detective stories such as Beast Of The Shadows and Black Lizard, Rampo specialized in the Japanese literary genre of the "erotic-grotesque", producing stories and novellas with sexually-fetishized themes of deformity, disfigurement and mutilation. These include "The Caterpillar", "The Dwarf", and The Ogre Of The Secluded Island. But none are as firmly planted in the underbelly of perverse sexual violence as Moju:The Blind Beast(1932).

Moju: The Blind Beast

　Mizuki Ranko, the young singer famous ten years earlier in Asakusa's flourishing theatres, was making a comeback at the Teito-Za. It was the most renowned music-hall in town and she had just been crowned Queen of the variety shows.

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