EDOGAWA RAMPO : The HUMAN CHAIR : Limited Edition Vinyl LP Record

Cadabra Records, 2018. Audio Book. Illus. by Gordon, Grady (cover art). New. Audio Book (LP). 1st Edition. Vinyl LP Record - NEW 160 Gram Color Vinyl (Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - EDOGAWA RAMPO, THE HUMAN CHAIR LP - READ BY LAURENCE R. HARVEY, SCORE BY SLASHER FILM FESTIVAL STRATEGY - Deluxe heavy weight gatefold tip-on jacket - Liner notes by Japanese film historian Marc Walkow - Insert with liner notes by Slasher Film Festival Strategy - Newly commissioned art by Grady Gordon - Hand lettering by Sam Heimer - Rampo's 1925 short story that begins with an aristocratic female novelist receiving a letter from a low-born craftsman who is a fan of her work, and goes on to explore the latter's obsession with "unnatural pleasure" found via surreptitious closeness to strangers' bodies from within a hollowed-out chair of his own making. Told almost entirely in epistolary form, "The Human Chair" is the perfect encapsulation of everything that is great about Rampo's literary works: the invasion of polite and mainstream society by elements of disorder, "deviant" sexual pleasure, abnormal and obsessive criminal behavior, and the implication of the protagonist - and through them, the reader - in the erotic or grotesque development of the story until its gooseflesh-raising conclusion. .