“What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.” Human NatureMurderThrillerCrime ThrillerDetective NovelsStrange Crime Author:Rampo Edogawa
“This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.” MoonMadnessMoonlightDark Passions Author:Rampo Edogawa
“After seeing the various fantastic sights, a visitor to Panorama Island would have had to gasp in amazement at this unsurpassable view. He would have had the impression that the entire island was a rose floating on the vast ocean and that the giant scarlet flower of an opium dream was conversing on an equal footing with the sun in the sky, just the two of them. What kind of strange beauty had that incomparable simplicity and grandeur created? Some travelers might have recalled the world of myth that their distant ancestors had seen. . . . How can the author describe the madness and debauchery, the pleasures of revelry and drunkenness, the numberless games of life and death that were played day and night on that magnificent stage? You readers might find something that resembled it, in part, in your most fantastic, bloodiest, and most beautiful nightmares.” UtopianDecadentAestheticism Book:Strange Tale of Panorama Island Source: Strange Tale of Panorama Island
“The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.” LifeRealityDreams Author:Rampo Edogawa