by Jean Ray · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477020295
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A manuscript stolen from a monastery and an old stone mansion of a dynasty of maritime merchants, possibly cursed, are the ingredients of this gothic novel. In the mansion of Malpertuis, something strange and disconcerting happens when relatives gather for the death of Uncle Casseve. Jean Ray, influenced by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, creates a story of great intensity in a suffocating Catholic context, where events of ferocity burst into the plot, maintaining suspense until the apocalyptic outcome.
Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer, a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Although he wrote journalism, stories for young readers in Dutch by the name John Flanders, and scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written in French under the name Jean Ray. Among speakers of English, he is famous for his macabre novel Malpertuis (1943), which was filmed by Harry Kümel in 1971. He also used the pseudonyms John Flanders, King Ray, Alix R. Bantam and Sailor John, among others.
