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02891aam a2200373 i 4500 001 98971D74F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230328s2023 mau b 000 f eng d 020 $a 1939663903 020 $a 9781939663900 035 $a (OCoLC)1374492659 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d BDX $d OCP $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a PQ2621 R35 C5813 2023 100 1 $a Ray, Jean, $d 1887-1964, $e author. $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjy6F3HxyKqY3DjdH4h6jy 240 10 $a CiteÌ de l'indicible peur. $l English. 245 14 $a The city of unspeakable fear / $c Jean Ray ; translated by Scott Nicolay. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Wakefield Press, $c [2023] 300 $a x, 194 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Originally published as La citeÌ de l'indicible peur in 1943. This English edition is published by special arrangement with Alma eÌditeur, France"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 546 $a Text in English, translated from the French. 505 00 $t A somber and solitary gentleman. $t Sidney Terence or Sigma Triggs -- $t Mr. Doove tells some stories -- $t Games of the sun and the moon -- $t Tea with the Pumkins ladies -- $t The terror on the moor -- $t Mr. Doove tells some stories -- $t The passion of Revinus -- $t Into the pentagram -- $t The 28 days of Mr. Basket -- $t A somber and solitary gentleman. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Impersonating an officer $v Fiction. 651 0 $a England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Villages $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Nicolay, Scott, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013015.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=98971D74F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search