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El personaje de esta historia vive en una apacible casa de campo, a orillas del río Sena, en una ciudad de Francia. Sus días son tranquilos y dedica su tiempo a descansar en el jardín, observar los barcos que surcan en el río y viajar a París para distraerse. Un día, y de manera inexplicable, empieza a padecer eventos y sensaciones extrañas durante las noches, los cuales lo empujarán hacia la locura y la desesperación. Este relato fantástico clásico representa una huida hacia un mundo misterioso y desconocido que el autor francés Guy de Maupassant escribió con excelencia.

A gentleman enjoying the morning over the River Seine waves to a steamer, and the nightmare begins. He believes he may be going insane, but then he begins to feel there is an entity that he cannot see invading his mind and his home. The entity is perhaps an invader from another world. Guy de Maupassant's tale of classic horror will enthrall you.

Plongez dans l’univers troublant de Guy de Maupassant avec Le Horla, un chef-d'œuvre du fantastique qui vous fera douter de la réalité elle-même. Écoutez cette histoire fascinante et frissonnante, où un homme, d'abord sain d'esprit, sombre peu à peu dans une terreur indicible face à une présence invisible et menaçante...

An excellent collection of creepy ghost stories from some of the most notable names of early horror fiction, including: “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood, “The Shadows On The Wall” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “The Messenger” by Robert W.Chambers, “Lazarus” by Leonid Andreyev, “The Beast With Five Fingers” by W.F. Harvey, “The Mass Of Shadows” by Anatole France, “What Was It” by Fitz-James O’brien, “The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce, “The Shell Of Sense” by Olivia Howard Dunbar, and more!

“Maupassant Collection” contiene 7 dei racconti più suggestivi e inquietanti di Guy de Maupassant, scrittore di oscura genialità. Una produzione audio da brivido con musiche inquietanti e suoni, che ti condurranno tra gli oscuri meandri della pazzia, del sadismo, del crollo nervoso imminente e dell’assassinio.

Plongez dans l’univers troublant de Guy de Maupassant avec Le Horla, un chef-d’œuvre de la littérature fantastique qui vous fera frissonner jusqu’à la dernière ligne.

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, narrated by Christopher Mireider, is a chilling tale of psychological horror that delves into the fragile boundary between sanity and madness. The story follows a man who becomes haunted by an invisible, malevolent presence known as The Horla. As his paranoia intensifies, he struggles to understand whether he is the victim of a supernatural force or descending into madness. Maupassant masterfully explores themes of isolation, fear, and the limits of human perception in this haunting, unforgettable short story.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The Gothic short story is one of the most enduring of genres. In this volume we explore works by classic authors from all corners of Europe as they explore and exploit narratives with their undeniable talents.

Rats and mice, and beetles and creaky doors, and loose slates, and broken panes, and stiff drawer handles, that stay out when you pull them and then fall down in the middle of the night...Rats is bogeys, I tell you, and bogeys is rats, and don't you get to think anything else! Ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even rats, all make an appearance in this collection of frighteningly good classic stories from Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and more!

Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave.

Paru en 1887 avec d'autres récits, "Le Horla" est incontestablement le plus original et le plus effrayant de tous les contes fantastiques de Maupassant. Pour l'écrire, l'auteur s'est documenté auprès du docteur Charcot, célèbre spécialiste des névroses et des hystéries. Mais surtout, il s'est probablement inspiré des troubles nerveux qui commençaient alors à le détruire et qui allaient bientôt l'empoter.

An invisible alien parasite slowly takes over the penetrating mind of a French nobleman. He slowly loses control over his thoughts, his words, and his deeds. Is it insanity? Or is it the Horla?

From Britannica, The Horla, by Guy de Maupassant, is considered a masterly tale of the fantastic. The story was originally published as "Lettre d'un fou" ("Letter from a Madman") in 1885 and was revised, retitled "Le Horla," and published again in October 1886; the third and definitive version was published in May 1887. It is presented in the form of a diary and energetically details the hallucinatory obsessions of a madman.

Guy de Maupassant es reconocido como maestro de los cuentos de terror, a la altura de Edgar Allan Poe. Esta edición agrupa los mejores cuentos de este famoso escritor, lo que lo permitirá descubrir historias que lo aterrarán de principio a fin, tales como o ¿Quién sabe?, El Asesino, Aparición, La muerta o El Horla.

Seltsame Dinge geschehen um den Ich-Erzähler, der seine Gedanken und Gefühle seinem Tagebuch anvertraut. Woher kommen die schrecklichen Albträume und wer trinkt nachts seine Wasserflasche leer? Ist er ein Schlafwandler, wird er langsam wahnsinnig oder ist es der Horla?

Narra los síntomas y miedos del personaje principal cuando empieza a sentir la presencia de un ser invisible, llamado el Horla, que lo rodea y lo controla. Cada noche, mientras duerme, esta presencia lo invade y bebe su vida.

This chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so The Horla has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupassant’s mental illness. While such speculation is murky, it is clear that de Maupassant—hailed alongside Chekhov as father of the short story—was at the peak of his powers in this innovative precursor of first-person psychological fiction.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

"The Horla" is the chilling tale of one man's descent into madness. Maupassant established a reputation in France as an absolute master of the short story, before himself succumbing to the mental illness that ravaged his later life. This story is the terrifying tale of an invisible vampire, told by a narrator himself on the brink of insanity, and written by a master of the macabre clearly at the peak of his powers.

1.- Lo horrible (12:43) 2.- Suicidas (11:40) 3.-Miseria Humana (11:32) 4.-La muerta (10:47) 5.-La mano disecada. (13:24)