The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (パノラマ島綺譚, Panorama-tō Kitan) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Suehiro Maruo and based on a 1926 novella of the same name [ja] by Edogawa Ranpo.

[2] Hitomi Hirosuke, a struggling novelist, writes a story titled "The Tale of RA" about a protagonist who suddenly gains wealth and constructs a utopian paradise where everyone can live in their idyllic fantasies and hedonistic desires are indulged in blissful pleasure.

Upon the entrance to the island through an aquarium tunnel, he shows her extravagant manmade landscapes filled with entrancing music, complete with flowing waterfalls, luxurious grand palaces, enchanted gardens, precious statues, frolicking attractive people romping on slopes carpeted with rainbow-colored flowers, and portions of the island made to look larger optically like a panorama.

However, sometime later, one of his servants receives a letter from a private detective named Kogoro Akechi, who has read "The Tale of RA" and visits the island to discover Hitomi's act.

Japanese mystery and suspense author Edogawa Ranpo originally serialized his novella The Strange Tale of Panorama Island in the October 1926 issue of Shinseinen.