Le Horla

Description: Le Horla Le Horla By Guy de Maupassant (1850 -1893) Le Horla is a short horror story published in 1887 by Guy de Maupassant. Written in the form of a journal by an upper-class, unmarried narrator, it conveys his troubled thoughts and anguish that begin four days after he spies a beautiful Brazilian three-masted schooner while sailing and waves to it, unconsciously beckoning a supernatural being to his ship. He soon senses the presence of a being that he calls the "Horla", a neologism that combines the French words "hors", meaning "outside", and "la" meeting "there," and that can be defined as "the outsider" or "what's out there". He contracts a high fever, wrestles with insomnia, and awakes from nightmares sensing someone kneeling on his chest and watching him; he wonders if he is going mad when he discovers the glass of water beside his bed is empty despite his not having drunk from it. When he reads about a large number of Brazilians who have fled their homes bemoaning the fact that "they are pursued, possessed and governed... by a species of vampires which feeds on their life while they are asleep... [and] and drinks water", he realizes that the Horla had come from the vessel he had hailed. The presence of the Horla becomes increasingly intolerable to the point he is ready to kill either the spirit or himself. The story is cited as the inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft’s "The Call of Cthulhu" and has inspired or been adapted for many film, television, and radio productions. Play sample: Product Details Read by: ML Cohen Length: 56 minutes Type: Solo reading Media: MP3 CD Package: Safety sleeve Item No.: CD-6008 List Price: $2.99 Artwork: Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing CD label art: Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats CD jewel case art: Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card DVD case art: Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert Credits Production Book Coordinator: Catharine Eastman Meta Coordinator: Catharine Eastman Proof Listener: Jennifer Stearns Artwork Cover: Illustration for the cover of the1908 edition of Le Horla by William-Julian Damazy, engaving by Georges Lemoine. Inset: skan książki PL, Illustration from Polish edition of Le Horla, 1923, by Zygmunt Niedźwiecki Inset: Photo of Guy de Maupassant by Félix Nadar, 1888. Insert: illustration for the 1908 edition of Le Horla by William-Julian Damazy, engaving by Georges Lemoine. 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