十五号車の男
Tsuki no Hikari is a short story by Eiji Kuroha, published under the name Anri Tone, and selected as an honorable work in the Hoseki short-story contest. Praised by Edogawa Rampo and Ayukawa Tetsuya, it is a mystery story with a fantastic tone and was later included in Jugogosha no Otoko, a collection of stories related to railways and abandoned lines.
Work Information
A fantastic mystery published under a one-time pen name and later remembered as an elusive short story.
Tsuki no Hikari is a short story published under the name Anri Tone and selected as an honorable work in the 1955 Hoseki short-story contest. The author later became known as Eiji Kuroha, and Kawade Shobo Shinsha's Jugogosha no Otoko includes this story among mystery and fantasy pieces related to railways and abandoned lines. A direct Amazon Japan page could not be confirmed, but the publisher and Kinokuniya pages confirm the ISBN, publication date, page count, and inclusion in Jugogosha no Otoko. The ISBN-10 and ASIN have been cross-filled from the paper ISBN-13. No identifier from the original magazine issue has been used.
Review Summaries
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The story is intriguing because it was admired by leading mystery writers of its time yet remained hard to trace because of its pen name. Its later republication allows it to be read anew as a fantastic short story from the margins of postwar mystery fiction.
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In the collected volume, the story sits among mystery and fantasy pieces connected with railways and abandoned lines. It can be read not only as an individual story but also as an entry point into Kuroha's later style.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 河出書房新社
- Published
- 2009-07-11
- Pages
- 336 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- Size
- 13.5 x 2.7 x 19.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9784309908236
- ISBN-10
- 4309908233
- Price
- 1980 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
江戸川乱歩・鮎川哲也に絶賛されながら、1作限りのペンネームのため幻の作家扱いされたいわくつきの短篇「月の光」をはじめ、鉄道・廃線にちなんだ推理・幻想短篇を集める。
昭和6年、東京生まれ。早稲田大学英文科卒業。『目的補語』で昭和45年度文藝賞受賞。著書に詩集『いのちの旅』『間奏曲』『鉄道廃線跡と』などがある。
Related Literary Awards
- Hoseki Award Edition 9 (1955) ・top honorable mention