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Moju: The Blind Beast
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In Edogawa Rampo's "Moju: The Blind Beast", a deranged, scarred and sightless sculptor kidnaps a model and imprisons her in a psychedelic labyrinth of giant sculpted eyes and other outlandish body parts, before dismembering her in a fearful blood-orgy. Her limbs, head and torso are later found scattered throughout Tokyo. The blind killer continues his sexually-charged spree of amputation and decapitation, claiming several more victims before finally presenting his work at an acclaimed art exhibition in which the sculptures are a little too life-like for comfort... The most disturbing of Rampo's novels, "Moju: The Blind Beast" is a classic of grinding horror and weird sex, tainted with a virulent black humour. It represents one of the earliest literary examples of the Japanese erotic-grotesque-genre, in which such subjects as dismemberment, mutilation, coprophilia and cannibalism are presented in a perverse sexual context. This is a special ebook presentation of the first-ever English translation of Rampo's classic.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Another erotic grotesque short novel by Edogawa Rampo, master of this genre. What do we find in this one? Beautiful women, ugly blind man, dismembering, masturbation, gruesome crime scenes... Not necessarily in that order. Not the best Edogawa I've read... but keep in mind these were mass published in some sort of pulp magazines at the time, they're not made to be more than popular adult entertainment.The introduction to the Shinbaku edition/translation deals with the different movie adaptation of this book and is pretty entertaining. There are a few illustrations from the original magazines in which the novel was published, which makes this read particularly interesting for scholars studying pulp from Japan's 1920s-1930s.
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