Guy de Maupassant

Madame Mathilde Loisel is sure she was meant to be an aristocrat, but she was born into a middle-class family and married off to a middle-class clerk. When her husband procures invitations to a high-society party, Loisel goes all out to impress....

A lesson on the power of vanity, "The Necklace" tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband. Mathilde always imagined herself as a socialite with beautiful gowns and wonderful jewels....

This collection comprises stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Allen's "The Arctic Death", through to Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", Stoker's "Dracula's Guest", and beyond. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable....

Invited to a ball at the Ministry of Public Instruction where her husband works, Mathilde is in despair about how to look the part....

"En Sicile" est le titre d'un carnet de voyage entrepris par Guy de Maupassant en Sicile. En 1885, ses succès littéraires lui permettent d'acquérir un yacht...

Fifty unusual and enchanting short stories....

The screams...the grisly sound effects...the rumbling organ music. Sounds in the dark come strange, mysterious, and terrifying in 21 episodes of classic series....

Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life....

Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer....

No nation on earth has produced a greater and more honored literature than France....

A comprehensive and varied collection of the best vampire stories from the Victorian era by the greatest Gothic writers of the time....

Beautifully simple and marvelously strong, the stories of Guy de Maupassant have enchanted generations around the world....

A delightful anthology of great works by some of Europe's greatest short story writers....

A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room....

Guy de Maupassant, (1850 - 1893), a native of Normandy, wrote in a bold and vigorous style that moves inexorably along clear plot lines....

La Belle Époque. Georges Duroy se retrouve à Paris sans argent en quête d'ascension sociale. Un soir, il rencontre Forestier un ancien...

An anthology of chilling, classic horror stories...

In Growing Old two middle-aged men discuss their feelings about aging which leads to one telling a heart rending story about young love and its unexpected aftermath....

El miedo es una de las sensaciones más intensas que puede sentir el hombre....

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story....