Flap a Day

I almost forgot to skim a book flap today because I was having such a good time not skimming book flaps. But here we are. Today's flap comes from JAPANESE GOTHIC TALES by Izumi Kyoka, whose "decadent romanticism," according to the flap, "led him to envision an idiosyncratic world - a fictive purgatory - precious and bizarre though always genuine." And I was like, "All right!"