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Book Information: Horla, or Modern Ghosts, the

Horla, or Modern Ghosts, the (1886) [Short Story]
by Guy de Maupassant Rating: No votes (Rate!)
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Summary (From the publisher):

This chilling tale chronicles one man's terrifying descent into paranoia and madness as seen through the increasing intensity of his spell-binding journal entries.

First printed in Gil Blas, October 26, 1886.

Reprinted in:

  • Weird Tales Aug 1926
  • Terror! (1966)
  • Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
  • Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror (1979)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1981)
  • Blood & Roses (1992)

Original title: Le Horla
Original languages: French

Quotes:

Genre: FictionHorrorGhosts

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Modern Ghosts (1890) [Anthology]
      Authors: Guy de Maupassant , Alexander L. Kielland , Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , Leopold Kompert , Gustavo Adolfo Becquer , Giovanni Magherini-Graziani
     Mountain Inn and Other Stories, the (1955) [Collection]
      Author: Guy de Maupassant
     Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966) [Anthology]
      Authors: Edgar Allan Poe , H. P. Lovecraft , Isaac Asimov , Ambrose Bierce , Ray Bradbury , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Mary Shelley , Harry Harrison , Patricia Highsmith , August Derleth , Henry Kuttner , Robert Bloch , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Theodore Sturgeon , Henry Slesar , Guy de Maupassant , Fredric Brown , F. Marion Crawford , Harold Lawlor , W.C. Morrow , Clive Pemberton , Edogawa Rampo

Edition #1: The Horla

The Horla (1955)
Edition Details:

Included in:
The Mountain Inn and Other Stories (Penguin, 1955)

Language: English

Translated by: H. N. P. Sloman
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Edition #2: The Horla

The Horla (1890)
Edition Details:

Included in:
Modern Ghosts (1890)

Language: English

Translated by: Jonathan Sturges
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