''Smirt: An Urbane Nightmare'' is a 1934

satirical Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming o ...

romance novel by

James Branch Cabell James Branch Cabell (; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and '' belles-lettres''. Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His wor ...

, the opening volume in his trilogy ''The Nightmare Has Triplets''. The two later romances of this trilogy are ''Smith'' and ''Smire''.

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