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Title: The Horla Title Record # 2091025
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1927-00-00
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 Brian Rhys; the first publication (as far as this editor knows) was in Tales of Mystery: Startling Stories of the Supernatural, edited by Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson Scott, in 1927.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tales of Mystery: Startling Stories of the Supernatural 1927-00-00 ed. Ernest Rhys, C. A. Dawson Scott Hutchinson  
7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
xii+
287
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Mandrake Root 1946-00-00 ed. Jeremy Scott Jarrolds  
12/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
224
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Mandrake Root 1946-00-00 ed. Jeremy Scott Progress Books  
C$3.00?C$: Canadian dollar
224
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Mandrake Root 1946-00-00 ed. Jeremy Scott Universal Distributors  
$5.00?$: US dollar
224
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Guy de Maupassant's Short Stories 1962-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Everyman's Library (UK)     xiv+
335
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Classic Tales of Horror 2006-04-10 ed. Adele Hartley Bloody Books 0-9549476-8-1
£9.99?£: UK pound
251
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
The Mandrake Root 2012-04-00 ed. Jeremy Scott Kosta Press 978-1-4474-4633-0
$28.45?$: US dollar
224
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
25 Unmissable Horror Stories 2021-09-22 ed. Ian Gordon HorrorBabble  
$24.95?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
anth  
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