How Long to Read The City of Unspeakable Fear

How Long Does it Take to Read The City of Unspeakable Fear?

It takes the average reader to read The City of Unspeakable Fear by Jean Ray

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Description

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 Fearremains 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.

How long is The City of Unspeakable Fear?

The City of Unspeakable Fear by Jean Ray is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read The City of Unspeakable Fear Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read The City of Unspeakable Fear aloud.

What Reading Level is The City of Unspeakable Fear?

The City of Unspeakable Fear is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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