Born in 1872, Kidō wrote theater reviews, covered the Russo-Japanese War as a newspaper reporter, and eventually became a playwright and author.
In addition to a number of well-received plays, he also penned more than fifty horror stories over a roughly ten-year period starting in the mid-1920s.
Just prior to this period, the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 destroyed almost everything in Tokyo that remained from the Edo era, and Japanese horror itself was transitioning from the tradi.
Kurodahan Press Okamoto kido: master of the uncanny, paperback/kido okamoto
