The CATERPILLAR by EDOGAWA RAMPO (Vinyl LP Record)

Cadabra Records Audio Book. Illus. by Aoyama, Zakuro. New. Audio Book (LP). 1st Edition. Vinyl LP Record (CADABR-40) NEW (Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - EDOGAWA RAMPO, THE CATERPILLAR LP - Read by LAURENCE R. HARVEY, SCORE by CHRIS BOZZONE - Limited pressing on 150 gram vinyl - Printed on a deluxe heavy weight tip-on jacket - Includes insert liner notes by Japanese cinema scholar Marc Walkow - Newly commissioned art by Zakuro Aoyama - "Written in 1929 by Edogawa Rampo, The Caterpillar (Imomushi) was originally banned due to it's content and is regarded as one of the darkest and most controversial tales ever written by a Japanese author. "The Caterpillar" had always been a controversial story, however. Rampo's wife, after reading it, declared it to be "filthy" and when Rampo showed the story to several geisha friends, they all told him they couldn't eat after finishing it. But left-wing, anti-war activists claimed Rampo as their hero after the story's publication, even though Rampo vehemently denied that he had written the story with any particular ideology in mind. He asserted that his only objective was to depict "humanity's ugly ego" absent any other political motive."... .