Edogawa Rampo (1894 - 1965)
Titles: The Human Chair (1925)
Related: detective fiction - mystery fiction - ero guro nansensu - Japanese literature
Short story adapted for film: Blind Beast
The name Edogawa Ranpo was chosen to sound like "Edgar Allan Poe".
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Biography
Edogawa Rampo, born Hirai Tar? (October 21, 1894 - July 28, 1965) was a Japanese author and critic. He wrote many works of detective fiction. Kogoro Akechi was the primary detective of these novels.
Rampo was a great admirer of western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. The pseudonym "Edogawa Rampo" is actually a Japanese rendering of Poe's name. Other authors who were special influences on him were Maurice Leblanc and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edogawa_Ranpo [May 2005]
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