by Guy de Maupassant · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422692348
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«El Horla y otros cuentos fantásticos» is Guy de Maupassant's collection of fantastic tales, published by Círculo de Lectores (hardcover, 232 pages).
The volume brings together eighteen Maupassant stories in which the supernatural creeps into everyday life: mystery, madness, crimes, suicide, fear and solitude. The fantastic element does not burst violently into normality but surrounds it insidiously, as a reflection of inner ghosts. It includes a prologue and translation by Esther Benítez.
The story that gives the volume its title, «Le Horla», was originally published in 1886.
For readers of horror classics, interested in French literature and in short stories of the nineteenth century.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
