Le Horla
A man wonders if he is going insane when he begins to suspect that an invisible presence is stalking him. The creature attacks him in his sleep, then slowly takes over the man’s life. Maupassant wrote two versions of this horror tale. The 1887 one, written as a journal, is by far the more chilling, and the more intriguing in the way that it makes the narrator question his own identity.
Check out a Print Version:
(English) Maupassant, Guy de. "The Horla." Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Joan Kessler. U Chicago P, 1995.
(French) Maupassant, Guy de. “Le Horla” (1887). Le Horla. Paris: Flammarion, 1984. 55-82.
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