by Guy de Maupassant · Ideal Foreign Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011665836
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«Le Horla» is a collection of fantastic short stories by Guy de Maupassant, published by Ideal Foreign Books in paperback (120 pages, in French).
The volume brings together eighteen stories in which the fantastic creeps into everyday life through fear, madness, loneliness and crimes of dark origin. The title story follows a man who feels watched and consumed by an invisible presence, in a mental decline narrated in the first person.
The cover identifies the book as part of the Classiques collection and indicates that the stories are unabridged.
Intended for students of French and for readers of classic fantastic and horror short stories.
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.
