Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination Quotes

“Indeed, during such times the laboratory was transformed into a purgatory of freaks.”
― Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

“Give a guilty man enough rope," rejoined Dr. Akechi philosophically, "and he'll supply enough evidence to hang himself.”
― Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

“This “thing” that lay before her was indeed a living creature. He had lungs and a stomach as well as a heart. Nevertheless, he could not see anything; he could not hear anything; he could not speak a word; he had no limbs. His world was a bottomless pit of perpetual silence and boundless darkness. Who could imagine such a terrible world? With what could the feeling of a man living in that abyss be compared?”
― Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

“Through the boundless darkness, it seemed as if our long, gloomy carriage were the only existing world, monotonously rumbling along on its creaky wheels, my peculiar companion and I the only creatures alive.”
― Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

“Why would a man become crazy if he entered a glass globe lined with a mirror? What in the name of the devil had he seen there? . . . Did he go made after taking a glance at himself reflected by a completely spherical mirror? Or did he slowly lose his sanity after suddenly discovering that he was trapped inside his horrible, round glass coffin—together with “that” reflection?”
― Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination