Circles of Dread Timothy West Contributor(s): Brown

Contributor(s): Brown

most Japanese soldiers chose suicide

and structural oppression

whose poems

For one brief moment when she lets down her guard

Circles of Dread Timothy West Contributor(s): BrownWartime tales of disquiet and dread from Jean Ray, author of Cruise of Shadows and progenitor of the "Belgian School of the Strange" During the Occupation, severed from contact with France and other countries, Belgian publishing turned inward, and forgotten authors such as Jean Ray were given new leases on literary life. Embracing the influence of American pulp fiction, Ray's short stories found a new audience during World War II, and gave voice to a