When the liner Beautiful Dreamer is becalmed four days into its voyage, things soon start to go wrong: power is lost, food begins to run short, a passenger is found horribly murdered and strange creatures are seen haunting the corridors.
Yet even as factual questions are answered, and the basic curiosity of both the audience and the main character is satisfied, "Un Secret" leaves in place a sense that something horribly and splendidly strange can lie under the surface of ordinary experience.
Her husband, who had also been bitten, had been horribly sick in December with some strange bug.
Horrible things happen, horribly.
Strange had got his strategy horribly wrong and Torrance, not surprisingly tearful now on the course where he cried his eyes out as the 1985 match-winner, got his wonderfully, spectacularly right.
On a weekend away, friends experiment with a strange new drug and things go horribly wrong.
Mouthless, with huge eye sockets, and hair like some strange head dress, they emanated a horribly ghoulish feeling even from these simple outlines.
Conde's investigations lead him through ramshackle Havana slums and back to the strange mansion where he makes a horribly gothic discovery – and unmasks the real criminal.
Lily has been guilty in life, is pursued in death (there is one horribly recurring memory of her son), and in a strange twist to the plot is reborn as her own junkie daughter's daughter.
It led to the safety car being deployed for the first time and the strange decision for Hamilton to pit - a horribly misjudged choice, which saw him re-emerge with Rosberg and Vettel ahead of him.
In the strange ways that exploding ordnance can wound one person horribly and entirely spare another only a few feet away, Mr. Ezeh, pressed to the ground, received only a scratch on his left shin.
