← Back

The Horla

Guy de Maupassant

First published June 1911
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

{{Tr|an uncredited translator}} This record is for translations of "The Horla" by unknown or uncredited translators.

One frequently-reprinted translation appeared in The Works of Guy de Maupassant [17 volumes] (Akron, Ohio: St. Dunstan Society, 1903; edited and published by M. Walter Dunne). It is not clear which of the many translators who contributed to the complete edition worked on "Le Horla"; contributing translators include A. E. Henderson, Albert M. Cohn McMaster, Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Percy Fitzhugh, Henri C. Olinger, Adolphe Cohn, and perhaps others. This translation has been reprinted many times, with the collective translator credit or, more often, uncredited.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1911 The Scrap Book, June 1911 The Frank A. Munsey Company MAGAZINE 984
1920 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories Doubleday, Page & Company Anthology 84
1922 Cover Famous Mystery Stories Thomas Y. Crowell Anthology 210
1925 Tales of Terror Small, Maynard & Co. Anthology 3
1927 Cover 26 Mystery Stories, Old and New, by Twenty and Six Authors D. Appleton & Company Anthology 45
1934 Cover The Mystery Book Odhams Press Anthology 105
1937 Cover The Second Century of Creepy Stories Hutchinson Anthology 595
1938 Cover Famous Mystery and Detective Stories Blue Ribbon Books Omnibus |210
September 1942 Cover Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, September 1942 The Frank A. Munsey Company MAGAZINE 129
1945 Cover Tales of the Supernatural Pan Books Anthology 46
August 1947 Cover Tales of the Supernatural Pan Books Anthology 49
1950 Cover Selected Tales of Guy De Maupassant Random House Collection 27
1951 Cover Tales of the Supernatural Pan Books Anthology 49
1960 An Omnibus of Continental Mysteries, Part I Juniper Press Anthology 73
1962 Cover Tales of Horror Horwitz Anthology 114
April 1972 Cover Ghouls and Ghosts W. H. Allen Anthology 161
August 1973 Cover Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes Follett Publishing Company Anthology 58
1974 Cover The Devil's Children Orbit / Futura Publications Anthology 44
1975 Cover The Devil's Children Taplinger Anthology 44
February 1975 Cover Classic Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens and Others Dover Publications Anthology 249
September 1976 Cover The Devil's Children Berkley Medallion Anthology 40
1977 Cover Nighttouch St. Martin's Press Anthology 49
1977 Nighttouch General Publishing Anthology 49
June 1977 Cover The Best Ghost Stories Hamlyn Anthology 137
1980 Cover Midnight Fright Watermill Press Anthology 96
October 1984 Cover Uninvited Guests: Thirteen Unwelcome Visitors William Kimber Anthology 65
June 1987 Cover Classic Stories of Mystery, Horror and Suspense Robert Hale Anthology 64
March 1990 Cover The Best Ghost Stories (abridged) Mallard Press Anthology 131
September 1990 Cover The Best Ghost Stories (abridged) Ivy Leaf Anthology 131
October 1993 Cover Tales of Horror and Mystery Dean & Son Anthology 341
1994 Cover Midnight Fright: A Collection of Ghost Stories Watermill Press Anthology 96
2001 Cover Classic Tales of the Supernatural Arcturus Publishing Anthology 107
2002 Cover Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural Gramercy Books Anthology 107
2009 Cover A Spectrum Unseen: Invisible Men, Women, and Creatures in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Coachwhip Publications Anthology 53
January 2009 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories Project Gutenberg Anthology
July 2009 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 4 LibriVox Anthology |8
January 2010 Cover Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories Dodo Press Anthology
September 2011 Cover Vampires: The Original Stories—Back in Time to the First Darkness Watkins Publishing Anthology
January 2012 Dark Eclipse, Issue Number 7 Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing MAGAZINE
August 2015 Cover Chilling Horror Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 330
2016 Cover Pulp Adventures, Winter 2016 Bold Venture Press MAGAZINE
November 2016 Cover Chilling Horror Flame Tree Publishing Anthology |330
November 2016 Cover The Dead Valley and Others Dark Regions Press Anthology
April 2018 Cover Supernatural Short Stories Arcturus Publishing Anthology |7
June 2018 Cover Supernatural Short Stories Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Anthology |7
2020 Cover John Landis Presents Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened DK Publishing Anthology
July 2020 Cover John Landis Presents Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened DK Publishing Anthology 367
2021 Cover The Rivals of H. G. Wells, Vol. I (Short Stories and Novelettes) Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology 13
October 2022 Cover 50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol. 2) e-artnow Omnibus