{"_id":"63cdeec15e6d05b08ff6fd60","title":"The Horla","author":"Guy de Maupassant","code":"the-horla","words":9582,"publish_year":1887,"publish_source":"Le Horla","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/lehorla00maupgoog/page/n8/mode/2up","image":"stare.jpg","image_alt":"The intense eye of a staring man. graphite filter.","genres":["gothic","horror"],"blurb":"Oh, the vulture has been used to eat the dove, the wolf to eat the sheep; the lion to devour the sharp-horned buffalo; man to kill the lion with arrow, spear and gun; but the Horla is going to make of man what we have made of the horse and the cow: his thing, his servant and his food, by the mere force of his will. Woe to us!","description":"A man writes in his diary of an affliction that keeps him in a permanent panic. He begins to worry it is an unseen, living entity trying to control him.","original_language":"French","rating":4,"translators":["Albert M. C. McMaster","A. E. Henderson","MME. Quesada","Others"],"unique_cover":"A man with a ghost woman grabbing his head","cover_source":"William Julian-Damazy","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"spell","title":"Under a Spell","collection_type":"theme"},{"code":"monsters","title":"Horror Monsters","collection_type":"theme"}]}