Le Horla
By Guy de Maupassant
Cover: French: Chaumière normande, vieux Trouville Normandy thatched cottage, Old Trouville by Paul Huet · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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The collection opens with Le Horla, the diary of a man in a quiet Norman house who becomes convinced that an invisible being lives beside him and feeds on his life. Thirteen more tales follow, of love, cruelty and country life, in Maupassant's plain and piercing style.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.