Note: There are other authors with the same name: Guy de Maupassant (erroneous), Guy de Maupassant (in error)

Author: Guy de Maupassant Author Record # 1958 Legal Name: Maupassant, Henri René Albert Guy de Birthplace: Château de Miromesnil, Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France Birthdate: 5 August 1850 Deathdate: 6 July 1893 Language: French Webpages: Books and Writers, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, IMDB, Library of Congress, National Library of France, Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-FR Used These Alternate Names: Maupassant, De Maupassant, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, Ги де Мопассан?Gi de Mopassan Guy de Maupassant Author Tags: fantasy (18), horror (16), Librivox (7), ghosts (5), madness (5), first person point of view (4), contemporary (2), invisibility (2), haunted (2), Paris (2), devil (2), mars (1), monster (1), murderer (1), diary (1), Rouen (1), nervous condition (1), mesmerism (1), Brazil (1), doubles (1) and 18 additional tags. View all tags for Guy de Maupassant

• Clair de lune (1883)
• Contes de la bécasse (1883)
• Les sœurs Rondoli^?Les soeurs Rondoli
  (1884)
• Contes du jour et de la nuit (1885)
• Boule de Suif (1899)
• The Works of Guy de Maupassant [English] (1909)
• Monsieur Parent, Queen Hortense, Fascination, and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• Our Hearts, The Lancer's Wife, The Prisoners, and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• Pierre and Jean, Father and Son, Boitelle, and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• Strong As Death, Useless Beauty, Who Knows? and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• Sur l'Eau, La Vie Errante, A Family Affair, and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• The Horla, Miss Harriet, Little Louise Roque, and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• Une Vie, Saint Anthony, Minuet, and Other Stories [English] (1910)
• Boule de Suif and Other Stories [English] (1922)
• Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories [English] (1922)
• Miss Harriett and Other Stories [English] (1923)
• That Pig Morin and Other Stories [English] (1923)
• The Sisters Rondoli and Other Stories [English] (1923)
• Day and Night Stories [English] (1924)
• Yvette and Other Stories [English] (1924)
• The Horla and Other Stories [English] (1925)
• The Olive Orchard and Other Stories [English] (1925)
• The Pedlar and Other Stories [English] (1926)
• Useless Beauty and Other Stories [English] (1926)
• Guy de Maupassant's Short Stories [English] (1934)
• The Complete Short Stories of De Maupassant [English] (1941)
• The Portable Maupassant [English] (1947)
• Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant [English] (1950)
• The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant [English] (1955)
• Le Horla (1962)
• Selected Short Stories [English] (1968)
• Selected Short Stories [English] (1971)
• Tales of Supernatural Terror [English] (1972)
• Contes fantastiques complets (1973)
• Fantastische verhalen [Dutch] (1976)
• The Diary of a Madman and Other Tales of Horror [English] (1976)
• Qui sait ?: et autres histoires étranges (1981)
• Der Horla [German] (1982)
• Ausgewählte Novellen^?Ausgewaehlte Novellen
  [German] (1984)
• Die Totenhand und andere phantastische Erzählungen [German] (1985)
• The Dark Side of Guy de Maupassant [English] (1989)
• A Day in the Country and Other Stories [English] (1990)
• Contes de la bécasse et autres contes de chasseurs (1991)
• The Necklace and Other Short Stories [English] (1992)
• Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories [English] (1993)
• Best Short Stories — Les meilleurs contes [English] (1996)
• Who Knows? and, Was It a Dream? [English] (1998)
• Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques^?Le Horla: et autres recits fantastiques
  (2000)
• The Necklace and Other Tales [English] (2003)
• A Parisian Affair and Other Stories [English] (2004)
• Le Horla: et autres nouvelles fantastiques (2008)
• Tales of Terror [English] (2008)
• The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times [English] (2015)
• Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works [English] (2016)
• Η Νέκρη και άλλες δύο Ιστορίες^?E Nekre kai alles thύo Istories
  E Nekre kai alles thuo Istories
  [Greek] (2017)

• La main d'écorché
  • 1
    La main d'écorché^?La main d'ecorche
    (1875) also appeared as:
    • Translation: The Flayed Hand [English] (1904)
    • Translation: The Dead Hand [English] (1922)
    • Translation: The Flayed Hand [English] (1950) [as by uncredited]
    • Translation: La mano del cadáver [Spanish] (1958)
    • Translation: Die Totenhand [German] (1985)
    • Translation: La mano disecada [Spanish] (1996)
  • 2 La main (1883) also appeared as:
    • Translation: The Englishman [English] (1903)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (1910)
    • Translation: Mîna [Romanian] (1921)
    • Translation: A mão [Portuguese] (1959)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (1962)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (1966)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (1971)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (1972)
    • Translation: De hand [Dutch] (1976)
    • Translation: De hand [Dutch] (1981)
    • Translation: Die Hand [German] (1985)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (2003)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (2010)
    • Translation: The Hand [English] (2015)
  
  
• La peur
  • 1 La peur (1882) also appeared as:
    • Translation: The Traveler's Story [English] (1903)
    • Translation: Fear [English] (1907) [as by Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant]
    • Translation: Fear [English] (1909)
    • Translation: Fear [English] (1962)
    • Translation: Fear [English] (1972)
    • Translation: Angst [Dutch] (1976)
    • Translation: Die Angst [German] (1976)
    • Translation: Die Furcht [German] (1985)
    • Translation: Fear [English] (2015)
  • 2 La peur (1884) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Fear [English] (1925)
    • Translation: Terror [English] (1972)
    • Translation: Angst [German] (1985)
    • Translation: The Terror [English] (2020)
  • 2.5 La peur (excerpt) (2012)
  • La peur (unknown) only appeared as:
    • Translation: Fear [English] (1934)
    • Translation: Frica [Romanian] (1982)
  
  
• Le Horla
  • 1 Lettre d'un fou (1885) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Brief eines Verrückten [German] (1985)
  • 2 Le Horla (early version) (1886) also appeared as:
    • Variant: Le Horla (1886)
    • Variant: Le Horla (1re version) (1947)
    • Variant: Le Horla (première version) (1973)
    • Translation: De Horla (eerste versie) [Dutch] (1976)
    • Variant: Le Horla (1ère version) (1980)
    • Translation: Der Horla (1 . Fassung) [German] (1985)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1987)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (2004)
    • Variant: Le Horla (1886) (2008)
  • 3 Le Horla (1887) also appeared as:
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1890)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1903)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1905)
    • Translation: The Horla, or Modern Ghosts [English] (1907) [as by Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant]
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1910)
    • Translation: The Horla, or Modern Ghosts [English] (1910)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1923)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1925)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1927)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1955)
    • Translation: El Horla [Spanish] (1958)
    • Translation: De horla [Dutch] (1962)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1971)
    • Translation: De horla [Dutch] (1972)
    • Translation: El Horla [Spanish] (1972)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1972)
    • Variant: Le Horla (Deuxième version) (1973)
    • Translation: De horla [Dutch] (1976)
    • Translation: De Horla (tweede versie) [Dutch] (1976)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1978)
    • Variant: Le Horla (2ème version) (1980)
    • Translation: De horla [Dutch] (1981)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1982)
    • Translation: Horla [Romanian] (1982)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1982)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1983)
    • Translation: Der Horla [German] (1984)
    • Translation: Der Horla (2 . Fassung) [German] (1985)
    • Translation: Le Horla [English] (1990)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1995)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (1996)
    • Translation: The Entity (The Horla) [English] (2003)
    • Translation: Lo Horla [Italian] (2005)
    • Variant: Le Horla: (seconde version) (2008)
    • Variant: Le Horla (1887) (2008)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (2010)
    • Translation: Le Horla [English] (2015)
    • Translation: The Horla [English] (2020)
  • Unidentified Horla translations and excerpts
    • From The Horla [English] (1974)

• Sur l'eau (1876) also appeared as:
  • Translation: On the River [English] (1890)
  • Translation: On the River [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Moonlight on the Riviera [English] (1928)
  • Translation: On the River [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Op het water [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Auf dem Wasser [German] (1983)
  • Translation: Auf dem Wasser [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Out on the River [English] (1990)
  • Translation: On the Water [English] (2003)
  • Translation: On the Water [English] (2015)
  • Translation:
    Στο Νερό^?Sto Nero
    [Greek] (2017)
• Magnétisme^?Magnetisme
  (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Magnetism [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Magnetism [Romanian] (1982)
  • Translation: Magnetismus [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Magnetismus [German] (1985)
• Rêves (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Dreams [English] (1910)
  • Translation: Dreams [English] (1926)
  • Translation: Dreams [English] (1955)
• Fou ? (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Am I Insane? [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Mad? [English] (1922)
  • Translation: Verrückt? [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Irrsinnig? [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Call It Madness? [English] (1993)
• Un Normand (1882) only appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Нормандец^?Normandets
    [Russian] (1958) [as by
    Ги де Мопассан^?Gi de Mopassan
    Guy de Maupassant
    ]
• La relique (1882) only appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Мощи^?Moshchi
    [Russian] (1950) [as by
    Ги де Мопассан^?Gi de Mopassan
    Guy de Maupassant
    ]
• Le loup (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Wolf [English] (1890)
  • Translation: The White Wolf [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Wolf [English] (1972)
  • Translation: De wolf [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Der Wolf [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Il Lupo [Italian] (1994)
  • Translation: Il lupo [Italian] (2019)
• Menuet (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Dancers [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Minuet [English] (1910)
  • Translation: Minuet [English] (1922)
• La folle (1882)
• La légende du Mont Saint-Michel (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Legend of Mont St.-Michel [English] (1888)
  • Translation: The Legend of Mont Saint-Michel [English] (1923)
  • Translation: The Legend of Mont-Saint-Michel [English] (1955)
  • Translation: De legende van de mont Saint-Michel [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Die Legende von Mont Saint-Michel [German] (1985)
• Conte de Noël^?Conte de Noel
  (1882) also appeared as:
  • Translation: A Miracle [English] (1903)
  • Translation: A Christmas Tale [English] (1923)
  • Translation: Weihnachtsgeschichte [German] (1985)
• Auprès d'un mort^?Auprèed'un mort
  (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Beside a Dead Man [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse [English] (1910)
  • Translation: The Smile of Schopenhauer [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Bij een dode [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Totenwache [German] (1985)
• Mademoiselle Cocotte (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Francis [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Mademoiselle Cocotte [English] (1923)
  • Translation: Mademoiselle Cocotte [English] (1976)
• Apparition (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Apparition [English] (unknown)
  • Translation: The Specter [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Apparition [English] (1910)
  • Translation: A Ghost [English] (1921)
  • Translation: An Apparition [English] (1923)
  • Translation: Bewitched Love Letters [English] (1929)
  • Translation: The Ghost [English] (1940)
  • Translation: Apparition [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Die Erscheinung [German] (1978)
  • Variant: Apparitions (1980)
  • Translation: Erscheinung [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Erscheinung [German] (1987)
  • Translation: Eine Erscheinung [German] (2007)
  • Translation: The Apparition [English] (2015)
  • Translation:
    Οπτασία^?Optasia
    [Greek] (2017)
• Le condamné à mort (1883)
• Suicides (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Suicides [English] (1903)
  • Translation: Suicides [English] (1923)
  • Translation:
    Lăcașul morții de bunăvoie^?Lacasul mortii de bunavoie
    [Romanian] (1982)
  • Translation: Selbstmorde [German] (1982)
• La mère aux monstres (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Mother of Monsters [English] (1903)
  • Translation: De monstermoeder [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Die Mißgeburten [German] (1985)
  • Translation: A mãe dos monstros [Portuguese] (2008)
  • Translation: La madre de los monstruos [Spanish] (2011)
  • Translation: A Mother of Monsters [English] (2012)
• Lui ? (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: He? [English] (1903)
  • Translation: He? [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Hij? [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Lui? [Italian] (1978)
  • Translation: Er? [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Er? [German] (1984)
  • Translation: Er? [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Him? [English] (1987)
  • Translation: Lui ? [Italian] (2005)
• La confession de Théodule Sabot (1883) only appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Исповедь Теодюля Сабо^?Ispoved' Teodyulya Sabo
    [Russian] (1989) [as by
    Ги де Мопассан^?Gi de Mopassan
    Guy de Maupassant
    ]
• Solitude (1884) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Einsamkeit [German] (1982)
• La chevelure (1884) also appeared as:
  • Translation: One Phase of Love [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Golden Braid [English] (1909)
  • Translation: A Tress of Hair [English] (1910)
  • Translation: A Woman's Hair [English] (1923)
  • Translation: Das Haar [German] (1963)
  • Translation: De haarwrong [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: The Hair [English] (1976)
  • Translation: Das Haar [German] (1985)
  • Translation: The Head of Hair [English] (1989)
• Le tic (1884) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Spasm [English] (1903)
  • Translation: From the Tomb [English] (1904)
  • Translation: From the Tomb [English] (1904) [as by uncredited]
  • Translation: From the Tomb [English] (1904) [as by De Maupassant]
  • Translation: Nerves [English] (1926)
  • Translation: The Spastic Mannerism [English] (1972)
  • Translation: De tic [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Der Tick [German] (1985)
  • Translation: The Mannerism [English] (1989)
  • Translation: The Twitch [English] (1994)
  • Translation:
    Το Τικ^?To Tik
    [Greek] (2017)
• Le retour (1884) only appeared as:
  • Translation: The Return [English] (1922)
• La tombe (1884) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Tomb [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Grave [English] (1910)
  • Translation:
    Gravskändaren^?Gravskaendaren
    [Swedish] (1982)
  • Translation: Das Grab [German] (1982)
• Un fou ? (1884) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Madness [English] (1910)
  • Translation: Mad? [English] (1925)
  • Translation: Was He Mad? [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Een gek? [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Ein Wahnsinniger? [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Ein Irrer? [German] (1985)
• La Confession (1884) only appeared as:
  • Translation: The Confession [English] (1889) [as by Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant]
  • Translation:
    Das Geständnis^?Das Gestaendnis
    [German] (1982)
• À vendre (1885) also appeared as:
  • Translation: For Sale [English] (1910)
  • Translation: For Sale [English] (1924)
  • Translation: For Sale [English] (1955)
  • Translation: Zu verkaufen! [German] (1985)
• L'inconnue (1885) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Unknown [English] (1924)
  • Translation: Die Unbekannte [German] (1985)
• Un fou (1885) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Diary of a Madman [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Madman [English] (1946)
  • Translation: A Madman [English] (1955)
  • Translation: El diario de un loco [Spanish] (1965)
  • Translation: The Diary of a Madman [English] (1976)
  • Translation: Un nebun [Romanian] (1982)
  • Translation:
    Verrückt^?Verrueckt
    [German] (1984)
  • Translation: Ein Irrsinniger [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Um louco [Portuguese] (2008)
  • Translation: Lettera di un pazzo [Italian] (2020)
• La petite Roque (1885) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Little Louise Roque [English] (1903)
• Sur les chats (1886) also appeared as:
  • Translation: On Cats [English] (1903)
• Le Diable (1886) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Чёрт^?Chyort
    [Russian] (1989) [as by
    Ги де Мопассан^?Gi de Mopassan
    Guy de Maupassant
    ]
  • Translation:
    Ο Διάβολος^?O Thiavolos
    [Greek] (2017)
  • Translation: The Devil [English] (2020)
• Un cas de divorce (1886) also appeared as:
  • Translation: A Divorce Case [English] (1926)
  • Translation: Ein Scheidungsfall [German] (1985)
  • Translation: A Divorce Case [English] (2006)
• L'auberge (1886) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Inn [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Hostelry [English] (1923)
  • Translation: The Inn [English] (1972)
  • Translation: De herberg [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Hanul [Romanian] (1982)
  • Translation: Das Winterquartier [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Das Gasthaus [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Das Gasthaus [German] (1987)
  • Translation: The Inn [English] (2003)
• L'homme de Mars (1887) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Omul din Marte [Romanian] (1966) [as by Maupassant]
  • Translation: O homem de Marte [Portuguese] (1978)
  • Translation: Der Marsmensch [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Omul din Marte [Romanian] (1986)
  • Translation: Der Mann vom Mars [German] (1988)
  • Translation: Martian Mankind [English] (2004)
• Le Voyage du Horla (1887) only appeared as:
  • Translation: The Trip of the Horla [English] (2018)
• Moiron (1887)
• Madame Hermet (1887) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Madame Hermet [English] (1926)
  • Translation: Madame Hermet [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Madame Hermet [German] (1985)
• La morte (1887) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Die Tote [German] (unknown)
  • Translation: Was It a Dream? [English] (1903)
  • Translation: The Dead Girl [English] (1972)
  • Translation: De dode [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Die Tote [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Die Tote [German] (1985)
  • Translation:
    Η Νεκρή^?E Nekre
    [Greek] (2017)
• La nuit (1887) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Night: A Nightmare [English] (1887)
  • Variant: La nuit: Cauchemar (1887)
  • Translation: Darkness: A Nightmare [English] (1910)
  • Translation: Night: A Nightmare [English] (1923)
  • Translation: Night [English] (1935)
  • Translation: A Night in Paris [English] (1972)
  • Translation: La noche [Spanish] (1972)
  • Translation: De nacht [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Die Nacht [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Die Nacht [German] (1985)
  • Translation: A noite [Portuguese] (2004)
  • Translation: La notte [Italian] (2005)
  • Translation: A Nightmare [English] (2015)
• Le noyé (1888) only appeared as:
  • Translation: The Drowned Man [English] (1891)
  • Translation: Lost at Sea [English] (1923)
  • Translation: The Drowned Man [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Lost at Sea [English] (2015)
• Un portrait (1888) also appeared as:
  • Translation: A Portrait [English] (1910)
  • Translation: Ein Porträt [German] (1985)
• Le masque (1889) also appeared as:
  • Translation: La maschera [Italian] (2018)
• L'endormeuse (1889) also appeared as:
  • Translation: The Putter-to-Sleep [English] (1926)
  • Translation: Das Hilfswerk für freiwilligen Tod [German] (1964)
  • Translation: De slaapbank [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Der Einschläferstuhl [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Das Hilfswerk für den freiwilligen Tod [German] (1985)
  • Translation: The Lull-a-bye [English] (2004)
  • Translation: L'addormentatrice [Italian] (2019)
• Qui sait ? (1890) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Who Knows? [English] (1910)
  • Translation: Who Knows? [English] (1926)
  • Translation: ¿Quién sabe? [Spanish] (1940)
  • Translation: Chi sa? [Italian] (1953)
  • Translation: Who Knows? [English] (1972)
  • Translation: Je kunt nooit weten [Dutch] (1976)
  • Translation: Wer weiß [German] (1979)
  • Translation: Wer weiß? [German] (1982)
  • Translation: Wer weiß? [German] (1985)
  • Translation: Who Can Tell? [English] (1993)
  • Translation: Who Knows? [English] (2004)
  • Translation: Chissà ? [Italian] (2005)
  • Translation: Who Knows? [English] (2006)
  • Translation: Who Can Know? [English] (2015)
• The Apparition [English] (1911)
• Le docteur Héraclius Gloss (1921)
• Bold Enemies [English] (1945)
• Semillante [English] (1955)
• The Specter [English] (1975) with Wade Denning
• Der Horla [German] (1984)
• Notes d'un voyageur (excerpt) (2012)
• Η Κόμη^?E Kome
  [Greek] (2017)

• Terreur (1876) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Terror [English] (1992)
• Discovery [English] (1979)

• Adieu mystères (1881)
• Le fantastique (1883)
• Par-delà (1884)
• Un prophète (1886)
• Les momies du cimetière des Capucins (1890)
• The Writer's Goal [English] (2011)
• The Fantastic [English] (2021)

• Une vendetta (1883) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Vendetta [German] (1977)
  • Translation: Uma vendeta [Portuguese] (2021)
• La parure (1884) only appeared as:
  • Translation: The Necklace [English] (1963)
  • Translation: The Diamond Necklace [English] (1983)
  • Translation: The Necklace [English] (2011)
• Le gueux (1884) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Il mendicante [Italian] (2022)