A handful of these stories first appeared in English in Weird Tales in the 1930s, but the majority of this collection has never been translated.

The author was a man surrounded by as much mystery as the bizarre old mansion of Malpertuis where the insane and horrific events of this novel ineluctably unfold. Fellow writer, Thomas Owen, said of him: Jean Ray was a Gothic personality.

Yet these tales are laced with a certain mordant humor that bears as much allegiance with Ambrose Bierce as Edgar Allan Poe, and toy as much with the reader's expectations as they do with their characters" --

GRAVEYARD SPECTRES collects five of these translated stories - three from the 1930s and two from 1965 - as an introduction into the bizarre, disturbing, and highly original world of Jean Ray.

Jean Ray est assurément une des figures les plus marquantes de la littérature fantastique contemporaine de la langue française.

Ce livre est le plus beau roman du fantastiqueur flamand; ressuscitant l'antique mythologie dans un cadre à la fois intemporel et actuel, il exploite avec bonheur un filon panique qui distille un climat horrifiant sur l'ensemble.