Edogawa Ranpo, Il demone dai capelli bianchi

In 1893, the well-known translator of Western works Kuroiwa Ruikō (1862-1920) introduced in Japan an adaptation of the gothic novel Vendetta! - The story of one forgotten (1886) by Marie Corelli (1855-1924) under the new title The white-haired demon (Hakuhatsuki). Few decades later, in 1932, the detective story writer Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) published a new adaptation based on Ruikō's translation, but made structural changes and gave it  a strong Japanese connotation.