Cruise of Conjuring: On Jean Ray’s “Cruise of Shadows”
“Cruise of Shadows,” Jean Ray’s second collection of stories, is recognized as a masterpiece of the Weird.
Leonid Bilmes is a researcher and writer living in London. His reviews and essays have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, minor literature[s], and review31. He is currently working on a book on memory and visuality in 20th- and 21st-century literature.
“Cruise of Shadows,” Jean Ray’s second collection of stories, is recognized as a masterpiece of the Weird.
A major European philosopher diagnoses the pathologies of our time.
Jean Ray is canny in his writing of the uncanny — he is aware of the pitfalls of the genre and almost always manages to avoid hyperbolic verbosity.