Jean Ray

This letter is by the great belgian author Jean Ray (1887-1964), pseudonym of Jean Raymond Marie De Kremer, also published under the pseudonym of John Flanders. Belgian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, he is known for his crime fiction and narratives of horror and the fantastic in both French and Flemish (Dutch).
De Kremer worked as a city employee, from 1910 to 1919, before working as a journalist (1919–40). He began to publish fiction in 1925, with the short-story collection, Les Contes du whisky (1925). Here, he wrote his own biography to be published in "Les Maitres de la peur" ("Masters of Fear"), in 1927. This book was under the direction of André de Lorde, famous for his role at Paris Grand Guignol.