The Human Chair

CADABR-20 2018
LP
"Rampo’s 1925 short story that begins with an aristocratic female novelist receiving a letter from a low-born craftsman who is a fan of her work, and goes on to explore the latter’s obsession with “unnatural pleasure” found via surreptitious closeness to strangers’ bodies from within a hollowed-out chair of his own making. Told almost entirely in epistolary form, “The Human Chair” is the perfect encapsulation of everything that is great about Rampo’s literary works: the invasion of polite and mainstream society by elements of disorder, “deviant” sexual pleasure, abnormal and obsessive criminal behavior, and the implication of the protagonist — and through them, the reader — in the erotic or grotesque development of the story until its gooseflesh-raising conclusion. Written nearly 100 years ago, its unique and brilliant distillation of the basic elements of the human condition to their lowest, yet most truthful forms, is more than relevant today." -Marc Walkow
Credits:
Written by Edogawa Rampo
Lettering by Sam Heimer
Artwork by Grady Gordon
Music, liner notes by The Slasher Film Festival Strategy
Read by Laurence R. Harvey
Liner notes by Marc Walkow
1	The Human Chair - Part 1	
2	The Human Chair - Part 2	
Deluxe heavy weight gatefold tip-on jacket
Insert with liner notes by Slasher Film Festival Strateg
Pressing of 500
Variants:
Clear (from Psilowave)
Milky clear (150 copies)
Grey marble (150 copies)
Subscriber (Milky clear with black streaks)
Wax mage (21 numbered copies)
Test pressing (15 numbered copies)