Title: The Horla

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Title: The Horla Title Record # 2091022
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1890-00-00
Variant Title of: Le Horla [French] (1887) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Le Horla
Series Number: 3
Language: English

Note: Translated by Jonathan Sturges First English translation, published in Modern Ghosts, 1890; later in Weird Tales, August 1926.

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Modern Ghosts	1890-00-00	ed. uncredited	Harper & Brothers (The Continental Classics #15)		xv+ 225	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Weird Tales, August 1926	1926-08-00	ed. Farnsworth Wright	Popular Fiction Publishing Co.	$0.25^?$: US dollar	148	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	C. Barker Petrie, Jr.
Weird Tales	2019-00-00	ed. uncredited	Pulp Classics on DVD			other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	anth	Margaret Brundage

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Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years