Le Horla

Literal: The What’s-Out-There English release: The Horla

by Guy de Maupassant

Release: May 1887
Format: Novelette
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Audience: Adults
Content: No Time Phenomena
Original Language: French

A supernatural being—or possibly an alien, although probably not a time traveler—haunts the narrator’s house, driving him to possessed and murderous state.

— Michael Main

On dirait que l’air invisible est plein d’inconnaissables Puissances dont nous subissons le voisinage mystérieux.

One might almost say that the air, the invisible air, is full of unknowable Forces, whose mysterious presence we have to endure.

English

DEBUT

[ex=bare]“Le Horla” | The What’s-Out-There[/ex], in Le Horla (G. Chamerot pour Paul Ollendorff, May 1887).

VARIANTS

3 French variants

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to English

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Groupings

Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

ITTDB Work #1038: by Guy de Maupassant
Indexer: Michael Main
Curator: Michael Main
as of 3:33 a.m. MDT, 6 May 2024
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