In a Grove" and "Rashomon."
This author wrote a story in which a man with a prominent pimple learns that a deceased woman used to fraudulently sell snake flesh as fish, while in another story Masago lies about asking another man to kill her husband. This author described a thief's failed attempt to (*) escape Hell in "The Spider's Thread." In one story by this man, a servant robs an old woman after finding her robbing corpses, while in another story, testimonies by a woodcutter, a thief, and a ghost contradict over how a samurai was killed in the title location. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of "In a Grove" and "Rashomon."
This author wrote a story in which a man with a prominent pimple learns that a deceased woman used to fraudulently sell snake flesh as fish, while in another story Masago lies about asking another man to kill her husband.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa