Jean Ray and his specters of fear

[Fried Egg]

I'm reading "Malpertuis" now and so far it's crazy! I like it...

 

[nomadman]

I'm reading "Malpertuis" now and so far it's crazy! I like it...

It only gets crazier... in a good way. Enjoy, and I hope it leads you to hunt out more of Ray's work, hard and expensive task though that'll be.

 

[Fried Egg]

Yes, indeed, I did enjoy it very much. I definitely would like to read some more by him but may be put off if it's going to be too expensive...

 

[nomadman]

Yes, indeed, I did enjoy it very much. I definitely would like to read some more by him but may be put off if it's going to be too expensive...

If you can get hold of the anthologies Shadows of Fear and The Penguin Book of Witches and Warlocks you'll be able to read his two most famous short stories, The Shadowy Street and The Mainz Psalter, along with a whole bunch of other excellent stories. I think copies of both are fairly reasonable.

 

[Night_Raven]

Jean Ray is a great writer of weird fiction, but I don't have his book "The Horrifying Presence". You are the happy owner of this book. If you can, describe briefly these tales: The Bench and the Door, In the Fenn Marshes, Between Two Glasses, The White Beast, God, You and I, The Prettiest Little Girl in the World, The Wedding of Mademoiselle Bonvoisin, Tesseract.
Thank you!

 

[nomadman]

Jean Ray is a great writer of weird fiction, but I don't have his book "The Horrifying Presence". You are the happy owner of this book. If you can, describe briefly these tales: The Bench and the Door, In the Fenn Marshes, Between Two Glasses, The White Beast, God, You and I, The Prettiest Little Girl in the World, The Wedding of Mademoiselle Bonvoisin, Tesseract.
Thank you!

It's been a while since I read those, though I believe I already posted a summary of In the Fenn Marshes. Will try to post up summaries of the rest shortly (shortly being a relative term, I'm afraid).

 

[nomadman]

If you can get hold of the anthologies Shadows of Fear and The Penguin Book of Witches and Warlocks you'll be able to read his two most famous short stories, The Shadowy Street and The Mainz Psalter, along with a whole bunch of other excellent stories. I think copies of both are fairly reasonable.

There's also, of course, The Weird: A Compendium (ed. Jeff Vandermeer) which collects both stories along with a host of other excellent pieces. If you have a kindle it's pretty affordable.

 

[Lobolover]

Sorry to bump this thread but that would be a Kindle-only thing would it ? Curse my lack of modern mobile electronic devices, minus the thing I'm sitting at at present.

Also returning to something I said back in 2010 about Wordsworth's promises to publish Wakefield made back in 09 ? It's 2013 and no word on that, which makes me rather sad, but does make me appreciate that I borrowed They Return at Evening when I had the finances to do so and didn't wait for Wordsworth.

 

[nomadman]

Sorry to bump this thread but that would be a Kindle-only thing would it ? Curse my lack of modern mobile electronic devices, minus the thing I'm sitting at at present.

Also returning to something I said back in 2010 about Wordsworth's promises to publish Wakefield made back in 09 ? It's 2013 and no word on that, which makes me rather sad, but does make me appreciate that I borrowed They Return at Evening when I had the finances to do so and didn't wait for Wordsworth.

The Weird is available as both a book and a kindle ebook. If you have a laptop, you can download an app for PC or Mac that reads kindle books. Well worth it, especially if you're a fan of the Tartarus Press books, which can be had much cheaper than if you were to order the print books.

 

[Sargeant_Fox]

Last year Wakefield Press published Ray's The City of Unspeakable Fear

 

[Randy M.]

Last year Wakefield Press published Ray's The City of Unspeakable Fear

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Sargeant_Fox]

Thanks for the heads up.

Sadly that's all I can do; I'd rather read him than post about him, but I happen to live in a country where it's nigh impossible to get Wakefield Press books unless I'm wiling to spend a lot on shipping and postage and then deal with ****ing customs on top of it.