Whiskey Tales

Whiskey Tales
AuthorJean Ray
Original titleLes Contes du whisky
TranslatorScott Nicolay
LanguageFrench
PublisherLa Renaissance du livre [fr]
Publication date
1925
Publication placeBelgium
Published in English
2019
Pages217

Whiskey Tales (French: Les Contes du whisky) is a 1925 short story collection by the Belgian writer Jean Ray. It was Ray's first published book and the stories are speculative fiction.

The book was published by La Renaissance du livre [fr] in 1925 and became Ray's first breakthrough, leading to comparisons to Edgar Allan Poe.[1][2] It was published in Scott Nicolay's English translation in 2019.[3]

Contents

  • "Irish whiskey"
  • "At midnight"
  • "The name of the boat"
  • "A Whitechapel fairy tale"
  • "Herbert's fortune"
  • "In the Fenn marshes"
  • "One night in Camberwell"
  • "Belovéd little wife with the scent of Verbena"
  • "Poppelreiter's salmon"
  • "Over drinks"
  • "Josuah Güllick, pawnbroker"
  • "Vengeance"
  • "My dead friend"
  • "The crocodile"
  • "A hand"
  • "The last gulp"

References

  1. ^ ""Les contes du whisky" de Jean Ray" (in French). France Culture. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  2. ^ Poe Abroad: Influence Reputation Affinities. 1999. p. 48. ISBN 0-87745-697-6.
  3. ^ Bilmes, Leonid (2 March 2019). "More Than the Belgian Poe: The Overdue Return of Jean Ray's "Whiskey Tales"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 13 May 2024.