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Published 1887 - THE HORLA - takes the reader on a journey into madness. Something is following the man around day and night, something he must capture and destroy....at all costs.

Set near Rouen, France - May 8 - at first the man in the big country house is not well....is in horrible agony. "Am I mad?" "I must be going mad." The doctor proclaims him well, but he questions the hallucinations, the mysterious incidents in his room at night.

Sometimes - the man takes short trips, but by - August 14 - even a simple carriage ride is impossible; he tries to get away, but the phantom that is watching him does not allow it. The creature continually haunts him.

"Someone possesses my soul and governs it."

Then- "I shall kill him."

September 10 - He calls for a blacksmith. A dangerous plan is set to capture the thing that possesses him....he tells not even the servants.

Now - the terror is over, but is it dead?

THE HORLA is a short psychological horror story told in first person narrative with almost daily journal type entries beginning on May 8 and ending September 10 that demonstrate the relentless fear of the tortured man in the big house.