La Poupée sanglante

Night after night, a man records in his diary an invisible presence that drinks his water and takes over his will. The definitive version of Maupassant's most famous story, short enough to finish in one afternoon.

Guy de Maupassant

Twelve Maupassant tales caught between madness and the supernatural, from La Main d'écorché and La Peur to Qui sait?, plus the first version of Le Horla. Short stories that suit anyone starting to read in French.

Guy de Maupassant

Every night a young priest lives a second life beside Clarimonde, a dead courtesan, in Gautier's great vampire story. La Cafetière, Omphale and other fantastic tales come with it.

Théophile Gautier

A masked figure lives beneath the Paris Opera and terrorizes the whole theater out of love for a young singer. Gaston Leroux's original novel, complete and in French.

Gaston Leroux

A village in Roussillon digs up a bronze statue of Venus, and on the eve of a wedding things start happening that no one can explain. A short, unsettling tale about a statue that seems to have a will of its own.

Prosper Mérimée