The Horla: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Horla, credited to Guy de Maupassant, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Horla by Guy de Maupassant. Read in English by Louise J. Belle "The Horla" (French title "Le Horla") is among the most famous short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. This version, published in 1887, is an expanded version of that previously published in the Paris literary periodical, Le Gil Blas, on October 26, 1886. Written as a series of private journal entries, it recounts the narrator's terrifying experience of "a strange, unknowable, and invisible being." - Summary by Louise J. Belle

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Horla
• Author credits: Guy de Maupassant
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:46:46

Catalogue topics

• horror
• supernatural

Track guide

1. 01 - Part I — 17:14
2. 02 - Part II — 16:37
3. 03 - Part III — 21:02
4. 04 - Part IV — 25:01
5. 05 - Part V — 18:29
6. 06 - Part VI — 8:23

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