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The Horla

short story by Maupassant
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The Horla, short story by Guy de Maupassant that is considered a masterly tale of the fantastic. The story was originally published as “Lettre d’un fou” (“Letter from a Madman”) in 1885 and was revised, retitled “Le Horla,” and published again in October 1886; the third and definitive version was published in May 1887. It is presented in the form of a diary and energetically details the hallucinatory obsessions of a madman. The narrator becomes convinced that a mysterious invisible parasite is draining away his life force through his lips. Unable to destroy the creature by setting fire to his ...(100 of 122 words)

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