The City of Unspeakable Fear

by Jean Ray

Book Overview

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...

• 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"