In the form of a journal, the narrator, an upper-class, unmarried, bourgeois man, conveys his troubled thoughts and feelings of anguish. This anguish occurs for four days after he sees a “superb three-mast” Brazilian ship and impulsively waves to it, unconsciously inviting the supernatural being aboard the boat to haunt his home. All around him, he senses the presence of a being that he later calls the “Horla”. The torment that the Horla causes is first manifested physically: The narrator complains that he suffers from “an atrocious fever”, and that he has trouble sleeping. He wakes up from nightmares with the chilling feeling that someone is watching him and “kneeling on [his] chest”. ~ Wikipedia. ‘Le Horla’ (1887) by Guy de Maupassant was not mentioned by Renard but it is a tale with a merveilleux-scientifique flavour… ~ Aeon.co
First Appearance “Le Horla” published in Gil Blas (26 Oct 1886)
First Publisher Paul Ollendorff
Appearance List Lettre d’un fou by Guy de Maupassant published in Gil Blas (17 Feb 1885) — Proto-version / first appearance of core concept; “Le Horla” published in Gil Blas (26 Oct 1886) — First version under the title; “Le Horla” in the collection Le Horla (Paris: Paul Ollendorff, announced May 1887) — Canonical version / first book appearance; Le Horla (1887 text; various early reprints) — Public-domain text preserved in later editions and scans (e.g. Project Gutenberg); Le Horla (1907–1910) — Collected works edition, Paris: Louis Conard (Œuvres complètes); Contes et nouvelles, tome II (1979) by Guy de Maupassant — Critical scholarly edition, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard), includes Le Horla; Le Horla (1966) — French TV adaptation; Le Horla (1974) — French television adaptation (directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe).
Description In the form of a journal, the narrator, an upper-class, unmarried, bourgeois man, conveys his troubled thoughts and feelings of anguish. This anguish occurs for four days after he sees a “superb three-mast” Brazilian ship and impulsively waves to it, unconsciously inviting the supernatural being aboard the boat to haunt his home. All around him, he senses the presence of a being that he later calls the “Horla”. The torment that the Horla causes is first manifested physically: The narrator complains that he suffers from “an atrocious fever”, and that he has trouble sleeping. He wakes up from nightmares with the chilling feeling that someone is watching him and “kneeling on [his] chest”. ~ Wikipedia. ‘Le Horla’ (1887) by Guy de Maupassant was not mentioned by Renard but it is a tale with a merveilleux-scientifique flavour… ~ Aeon.co
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