Bottled Hell

Three letters are retrieved from three sealed bottles found forgotten on the beach washed out of the sea. Howbeit, the letters are telling a terrifying, disturbing and at the same time voluptuous story which has happened with and taken to the limits of his endurance the unfortunate author of the letters…..
Since its first publication in 1928, this short story tightly packed with strong emotions and unsolvable intellectual problems has been considered to be a “forbidden novel” by the reading community in Japan. After the delay of 80 long years, this disturbing yet beautiful and touching story is now presented to the Western reader for the first time in high quality English translation.

About the author
Kyusaku Yumeno (1889-1936) is known as “Edgar Allan Poe of Japan”. He wrote a number of dark and nightmarish novels and short stories. His most significant novel Dogra Magra is considered to be one of the most controversial and disturbing detective novels in the history of Japanese literature