Masahiko Inoue
Auteur van Night Voices, Night Journeys
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“Introduction: Rush Hour of the Old Ones”, Robert M. Price -- Price, who has edited several Lovecraft inspired anthologies and who has a degree in theology, purports to find some similarity in the broad mythology of the Cthulhu Mythos and Aum Shinrikyo: humanity must be purged from Earth to make way for supernatural beings who will be worshiped by the worthy members of the cult. Price also provides some interesting material on how the group’s theology evolved. he also looks at similarities between Budhhism and August Derleth’s corrupted interpretations of the Cthulhu Mythos. (Nov. 13, 2007)
“The Plague of St. James Infirmary”, Asamatsu Ken, trans. R. Keith Roeller -- This story shows what I’m told is a characteristic Japanese love of icon -- kami -- in their extreme form. This is sort of interesting melange of American icons fixed in the Japanese mind, specifically Chicago and its gangsters.
“The Import of Terrors”, Yamada Masaki, trans. Kathleen Taji -- This story effectively combines the firebombing of Kobe -- and less obviously its devastating earthquake fifty years later -- with some of the elements of H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in the Darkness” and “At the Mountains of Madness”. Two Japanese boys, fleeing the firebombing and starved, enter the mysterious house of a Russian immigrant. They encounter a strange creature who urges the boys to eat it. But they also see the maimed body of the Russian. Still living, he tells them not to eat the alien, that to do so will let a parasite live in their bodies for fifty years, and, when it emerges, catastrophe will result. He even kills one of the boys to stop him from eating the alien but then dies.
’27 May 1945”, Kamino Okina, trans. Steven P. Venti -- An interesting mythos story set during the midst of the Battle for Okinawa. A priestess of the island’s Cthulhu cult undertakes a mission to release, seemingly, some nascent Deep One forms from beneath Shuri Castle.
“Night Voices, Night Journeys”, Inoue Masahiko, trans. Edward Lipsett -- Forgettable story that invokes the old sex-death link to little effect. The story explicitly mentions Yog-Sothoth.
“Sacrifice”, Murata Motoi, trans Nora Stevens Heath --
“Necrophallus”, Makino Asamu, trans Chun Jin -- A sado-masochist tale that has a certain emotional believability and consistency. A sadist who likes to beat women encounters a mysterious alien, figured like a woman, who may have been born on Yuggoth, her mother disfigured by her grandfather wielding the alien dagger Necrophallus, which maims the narrator and gives him ecstasy at the same time.
“Love for Who Speaks”, Shibata Yoshiki, trans Stephen A. Carter -- A reworking of H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”.