The Monster in the Dark

The works included in this collection belong to the early stage of Ranpo's creativity, which many researchers consider to be the most vibrant, rich, and diverse. In the author's stories and novellas, the Western detective tradition — after all, the writer chose a pseudonym that resonates with the name of the genre's founder Edgar Allan Poe — intertwines with Japanese originality, and the scientific method of investigation clashes with intuition. Genre enthusiasts will be drawn to Ranpo's texts by the tightly woven intrigue, full of unpredictability in plot and completely unexpected endings, where events turn upside down not twice, but even three times.