The Horla and Other Stories

A grieving man spends the night at his lover's grave and sees the dead rise to rewrite their own epitaphs. A short ghost story with a cruel final line.

Guy de Maupassant

A magistrate recalls the Corsica case of an Englishman who kept a severed, chained hand on his wall, and what happened the night it disappeared.

Guy de Maupassant

Written from an asylum, a man explains how he came home one night to watch all his furniture walk out the door. One of Maupassant's eeriest stories.

Guy de Maupassant

An old marquis tells the story he has never explained: the night a pale woman in an abandoned manor asked him to comb her hair.

Guy de Maupassant

Two brothers obsessed with hunting go after a giant wolf that has terrorized their region, in a brutal tale told after a hunting dinner.

Guy de Maupassant