Cruise of Shadows | |
Author: | Jean Ray |
Title Orig: | La Croisière des ombres |
Orig Lang Code: | fr |
Translator: | Scott Nicolay |
Country: | Belgium |
Language: | French |
Publisher: | Les Editions de Belgique |
Pub Date: | 1931 |
English Pub Date: | 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.