Every 年 for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave バラ and a half-empty bottle of コニャック on Poe's grave on the anniversary of the writer's birth. This year, no one showed.
This is a new book which assembles some of the excellent short stories または talls of two great authors (Edgar A. Poe and Maupassant) in which are found similarities in the stories and literary style.