The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Guy de Maupassant: Volume 1-Including Two Novelettes 'Little Louise Roque' and 'Mad' and Forty-Four Sh

A three volume excursion into the dark realms

If the genre of supernatural fiction were a windowless corridor there would be those authors who stood at the light of the door only to peep playfully within and those who ventured farther along it to where the light was dimmer and the fear more palpable. Inevitably, in this analogy, there would be those who occupied a place far from the light where the darkness was almost complete. There, perhaps, one would find the work of Guy de Maupassant. It...