The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced.

a police raid of a narcotics factory

He paid half the $850 monthly tuition, and the church monsignor covered the rest.

While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance.