Stranded in a rain-soaked roadside town after a hitchhiker steals his car, Sol Becker accepts shelter from a kindly older woman whose cozy home quickly feels wrong in ways he can't name. Her casual talk of "the palace" and an "execution" hints at a community where ordinary manners conceal something far stranger. By morning, the town's unease has sharpened into open absurdity. A freckled little girl barges in with disarming bluntness, the telephone is a party line, and local help arrives with too much ease and too many unanswered questions. Over breakfast, Sol learns the residents share the same dream of Armagon, a nightly world that mirrors their waking lives with eerie precision. In this place, courts, rituals, and executions are accepted as part of the order of things. As Sol is drawn deeper into the town's strange customs, the story becomes a tense, surreal mystery about identity, conformity, and the thin boundary between the familiar and the uncanny. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.