The city of unspeakable fear:

"Published in occupied Belgium in the dark year 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...

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1. Verfasser: Ray, Jean 1887-1964 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Nicolay, Scott (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts Wakefield Press [2023]
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Zusammenfassung:"Published in occupied Belgium in the dark year 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 his transplantation, from the sympathetic old clerk Ebenezer Doove and the three haberdashing Pumkins ladies to the druggist Theobold Pycroft, the eccentric department store owner Gregory Cobwell, the autocratic Major Chadburn, the feared Lady Florence Honnybingle, 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"--Back cover
Beschreibung:"Originally published as La cité de l'indicible peur in 1943. This English edition is published by special arrangement with Alma éditeur, France"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:x, 194 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9781939663900
1939663903

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