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The Great Nocturnal

By Jean Ray

The Great Nocturnal

By Jean Ray

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"Published in 1942, the collection, as its subtitle indicates, consists of tales of fear and dread, but a dread evoked not by the standard tropes of horror but what had by now evolved into Ray's personal brand of fear, drawn from a specifically Belgian notion of the fantastic that lies alongside the banality of everyday life. An aging haberdasher's monotonous life opens up to a spiritual fourth dimension (and serial murder); an inebriated young man in a tavern draws cryptic symbols and mutters statements that evoke an inexplicable terror among some sailors, and, as he sobers up, himself; three students drink Finnish Kèummel and keep watch over a deceased woman's apartment, awaiting a horrific transmutation. Yet these tales are laced with a certain mordant humor that bears as much allegiance with Ambrose Bierce as Edgar Allan Poe, and toy as much with the reader's expectations as they do with their characters" --
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2020-06-02
Publication Date:
2020-06-02
Publisher:
Wakefield Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1939663490
ISBN13:
9781939663498
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
212 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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