The City of Unspeakable Fear
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Miss Marple meets H.P. Lovecraft in Ray's genre-defying tale of ghostly intrigue and murder Published in occupied Belgium in 1943 a few months after his celebrated novel Malpertuis , The City of Unspeakable Fear remains one of Jean Ray's most curious works. Haunting an ambiguous interzone between detective novel, horror fiction and Anglophile parody, it follows the misadventures of presumed police officer Sidney Terence Triggs upon his retirement to the sleepy English country town of Ingersham. A cast of characters worthy of Dickens awaits him, from the sympathetic old clerk Ebenezer Doove to the druggist Theobold Pycroft, the eccentric department store owner Gregory Cobwell and a motley collection of other humorously humdrum inhabitants. The emphatically commonplace quickly gives way to haunted melodrama as Triggs's new neighbors begin to die violently or vanish. His false identity as a detective is put to the test under the threat of murderous phantoms as city and citizens come apart at the seams. Jean Ray (1887-1964) is the best known of the multiple pseudonyms of Raymundus Joannes Maria de Kremer, a pivotal figure in the "Belgian School of the Strange," who authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1939663903
ISBN13:9781939663900
Release Date:July 2023
Publisher:Wakefield Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
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