The Horla

Guy de Maupassant

265 pages
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A wealthy Frenchman's diary records the arrival of an invisible presence that drinks the water at his bedside and turns his thoughts against him. Maupassant's late masterpiece on madness and the unseen, edited here alongside other tales by the master of the French short story.

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