Cruise of Shadows

1931 short story collection by Jean Ray

Cruise of Shadows Author| Jean Ray

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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

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* "The Horrifying Presence"
* "The End of the Street"
* "The Last Guest"
* "Dürer, the Idiot"
* "Mondschein-Dampfer"
* "The Gloomy Alley"
* "The Mainz Psalter"

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Horror Literature through History. 2017. p. 700\. ISBN 9781440842023.

## External links

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* Wakefield Press

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Jean Ray

Novels|

* Malpertuis (1943)
* The City of Unspeakable Fear (1943)
* Saint-Judas-de-la-nuit (1955)

Short fiction|

* Whiskey Tales (1925)
* Cruise of Shadows (1931)

Miscellaneous|

* Harry Dickson
* Malpertuis (1971 film)

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