Cruise of Shadows
| Author | Jean Ray |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Croisière des ombres |
| Translator | Scott Nicolay |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Les Editions de Belgique |
Publication date | 1931 |
| Publication place | Belgium |
Published in English | 2019 |
| Pages | 227 |
Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea (French: La Croisière des ombres : histoires hantées de terre et de mer) is a 1931 short story collection by the Belgian writer Jean Ray. It was Ray's second collection, written during a prison sentence he served from 1926 to 1929 for "misappropriation of funds".[1]
It contains "The Gloomy Alley", one of Ray's most famous stories, which first was published in English in 1956 as "The Tenebrous Alley".[2] Cruise of Shadows was published in English in 2019, translated by Scott Nicolay.[1]
Contents
[edit]- "The Horrifying Presence"
- "The End of the Street"
- "The Last Guest"
- "Dürer, the Idiot"
- "Mondschein-Dampfer"
- "The Gloomy Alley"
- "The Mainz Psalter"
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bilmes, Leonid (21 March 2020). "Cruise of Conjuring: On Jean Ray's "Cruise of Shadows"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ Horror Literature through History. 2017. p. 700. ISBN 9781440842023.