Holy shit! This story! It is extremely worth your time and attention.
“The Human Chair” by Edogawa Ranpo, translated by Allen Zhang
Recommended Read (Listen): PseudoPod: PseudoPod 771: “The Human Chair” 🦑😱
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Recommended Read (Listen): “Bring Rope” by Liam Hogan
An excellent little horror story; starts ~4min 30secs into this episode of Tales to Terrify: Tales to Terrify 306 Liam Hogan Franz Kafka. This podcast is usually pretty solid, if you like straight-up traditional audiobook-style readings of short horror fiction. Puts me in the mind of Kathe Koja’s The Cipher—but more for art reasons than horror reasons.
At the urging of @dhelder I listened to this…
…and learned that, if you wanna know what it’s like being me, microdose LSD.
Episode #44—”Shine On You Crazy Goldman”—from Reply All
(DISCLOSURE: I have indeed dropped acid. It made me almost entirely unbearably me-like. None of this constitutes an endorsement of anything other than this particular episode of this podcase.)
RECOMMENDED LISTENING: Three Stories I Recently Dug
These stories have nothing in particular to do with each other, apart from the fact that each speaks to a fundamental, existential truth. If you ever find yourself wondering, “Jeez! Why can’t these guys just admit to how totally off-the-rails this situation has gotten?”—well, here are three answers that are really one answer: Some truths entirely annihilate you.