Novelette
Le Horla
- by Guy de Maupassant
- in Le Horla (G. Chamerot pour Paul Ollendorff, May 1887)
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.
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One might almost say that the air, the invisible air, is full of unknowable Forces, whose mysterious presence we have to endure.
