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Title: 地獄変

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Title:
地獄変?Jigokuhen
Title Record # 1439888
Author:
芥川龍之介?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Date: 1918-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Aozora Bunko-1, Aozora Bunko-2, Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-JA
Language: Japanese
Note: This story was originally published in 1918 as a serial in 大阪日日新聞 (Ōsaka Nichi Nichishinbun, "Osaka Daily Newspaper"), and can be found in 芥川 龍之介 全集, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū, "Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Complete Works", Tokyo, Iwanami shoten, 1995-1998. The original Japanese title of the story, 地獄変, is transcribed as Jigokuhen in the Revised Hepburn transcription, and means literally "strange hell", "odd hell". It is composed of 地獄, higoku, "Hell" and 変, hen, "strange, odd, funny".
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1971 English Hell Screen [as by
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
]
2011Translated by Morinaka Akira
English The Hell Screen [as by
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Oriental Tales of Terror 1971-11-00 ed. J. J. Strating Fontana (Fontana Tales of Terror) 0-00-612790-8
£0.25?£: UK pound
191
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth  
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories?Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
2006-10-31
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 978-0-14-303984-6
$15.00?$: US dollar
li+
268
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Yoshihiro Tatsumi  
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories?Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
2009-03-03
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 978-0-14-044970-9
$16.00?$: US dollar
li+
268
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2011-10-31 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Corvus 978-0-85789-487-8
£25.00?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2012-05-08 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tor 978-0-7653-3360-5
$39.99?$: US dollar
xx+
1126
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2012-05-08 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tor / SFBC 1356431
$22.99?$: US dollar
xx+
1126
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2012-05-08 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tor 978-0-7653-3362-9
$29.99?$: US dollar
xx+
1126
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Nic Cheetham Checkmark
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