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Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

Ray, Jean
Nicolay, Scott

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ISBN10: 193966344X
ISBN13: 9781939663443
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Dec 23 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The second story collection from Jean Ray, the Belgian Edgar Allen Poe, available in English for the first time

Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a knock on the door of a hut in the middle of an isolated bog; a lane in Rotterdam perceptible to only one inhabitant in the city. In Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray began to fully explore the trappings of the ghost story to produce a new brand of horror tale: one that described the lineaments of a universe adjacent to this one, in which objects sweat hatred and fear, and where the individual must face the unknown in utter isolation. First published in 1931, two years after he served his prison sentence for embezzling funds for his literary magazine, Ray's second story collection failed to find the success of his first one, Whiskey Tales, but has emerged over the years as a key publication in the Belgian School of the Strange. It has remained unavailable in its integral form even in French until recently, however, though it contains some of Ray's most anthologized and celebrated stories, including two of his best known, The Mainz Psalter and The Shadowy Alley. This is the book's first English translation, and the second of the volumes of Ray's books to be published by Wakefield Press.

Alternately referred to as the Belgian Poe and the Flemish Jack London, Jean Ray (1887-1964) delivered tales of horror under the stylistic influence of his most cherished authors, Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer. A pivotal figure in what has come to be known as the Belgian School of the Strange, Ray authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime.

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