About the author

Yu Zhi is an author with limited publicly available information; sources do not specify nationality, birth and death dates, or an English name. The library holds five works under this name, including the six-volume Collected Detective Stories of Edogawa Ranpo, a ten-volume collection of essential Japanese classics, The Beast in the Shadows, Ranpo's Gallery of Strange Figures: Variant Volume, and The Black Lizard. These titles are commonly classified under suspense and detective fiction and foreign literature. Judging from these works, Yu Zhi's editorial and writing focus centers on Japanese detective fiction, particularly the organization and presentation of Edogawa Ranpo's writings, which involve bizarre, grotesque, and unconventional styles. The signed works are largely related to introducing Japanese classics and may be useful to readers interested in Japanese suspense fiction and foreign literary compilations.

Written (5)

Ranpo's House of Strange People: Strange Tales Volume cover
Rating 4.1
Ranpo's House of Strange People: Strange Tales Volume Edogawa Ranpo / 羽治 / 冷欣 · 2024 This collection divides its contents into two categories: detective mysteries and bizarre tales. The first: detective mystery stories with tightly int…
Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Novel Collection (Complete 6 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Novel Collection (Complete 6 Volumes) Edogawa Ranpo / 羽治 / 冷欣 Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2021 This set comprises six volumes, including The Demon of the Lonely Isle, The Siren, The Black Lizard, The Beast in the Shadows, The Triple Vortex, The …
Must-Read Collection of Japanese Classic Literature (10-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.2
Must-Read Collection of Japanese Classic Literature (10-Volume Set) Kazuo Inamori / Natsume Sōseki / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / Edogawa Ranpo / 小林多喜二 / Osamu Dazai / Yukio Mishima / Jun'ichirō Tanizaki / 曹寓刚 / 曹岫云 / 汪明 / 高慧勤 / 羽治 / 冷心 / Lin Shaohua / 杨伟 / 代珂 / 刘子倩 Qingdao Publishing House · 2021 This collection includes: Kokoro, Botchan, Rashomon, The Beast in the Shadows, The Crab Cannery Ship, No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, The Sound of W…
The Beast in the Shadows cover
Rating 4.2
The Beast in the Shadows Edogawa Ranpo / 羽治 / 冷欣 Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2020 A master of the genre leads you to peer into the abyss—do you dare? I had nearly become his puppet, drawing my deductions from the evidence he laid be…
The Black Lizard cover
Rating 4.0
The Black Lizard Edogawa Ranpo / 羽治 / 冷欣 Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2020 This collection of Edogawa Ranpo's detective fiction includes six classics—The Demon of the Lonely Isle, The Female Demon, The Black Lizard, and other…

Publishers

Shaanxi Normal University PressQingdao Publishing House