The Bizarre Weird Fiction of Fitz-James O'Brien & Guy de Maupassant: Including "What Was It?" and "The Horla" (An Oldstyle Tales Duplex) (Volume 1)

Included -- O'Brien (The Demon of the Gibbet; The Diamond Lens; The Wondersmith; The Pot of Tulips; The Lost Room; What Was It?; The Golden Ingot; The Child Who Loved a Grave) De Maupassant (The Dead Girl; He?; Am I Insane?; The Horla; Fear; The Inn; The Hand; The Grave; On the River; Magnetism; Diary of a Madman; The Apparition; The Flayed Hand; The White Wolf; A Night in Paris; Who Knows) BEFORE Lovecraft, Blackwood, or Machen, Irish-American Fitz-James O'Brien and Frenchman Guy de Maupassant pioneered the Weird Tale, generating uneasy, psychological horror stories which stunned their readership and helped to develop the genres of weird fiction and science fiction. Poe-esque, fantastical, and cynical, their stories critiqued the hypocrisy and class-ism of their societies, and profoundly invigorated future generations of horror writers. Robot rebellions, alien vampires, psychopathic judges, invisible monsters, disappearing rooms, possessed toys, and microscopic women all pervade these brooding pages.