Talk:The Horla

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Thanks for the note about the deletion. However, I question the "wisdom" of your bot. Btw, the links I provided were there to help you authenticate my information.

The Horla was an incredibly popular story in its day. Much more so than this tiny Wikipedia entry puts across. To help readers get a sense of this, I thought to include references to various radio play adaptations, of which there were many (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Dark Fantasy, Mystery in the Air, The Weird Circle, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Columbia Workshop...).

In fact I was going to update my post to reflect more research on this subject that I have just done. But I'll wait for a response before trying again. Suggestions would be much appreciated. Visitor 71.112.42.133 (talk) 16:19, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Horla, the story, the film and Star Trek

"The Horla is a vampire-like creature aiming to bring an end to human and taking the control in his hands."

I wouldn't say that. To me, it is obvious that the Horla is not an entity of its own but a manifestion of the I-narrator losing his self-control.

Nevertheless, I am aware that there is a film (starring Vincent Prince as a judge) depicting the Horla as some kind of energetic being wandering from person to person and making them murder people. The film-Horla only fears fire (which in the story couldn't harm it). The Star Trek-entity was much closer to the film than to the story. In fact I even remember two episodes from the old series with very similar entities.--80.141.223.146 (talk) 18:16, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Mario Bava

The Horla also inspired Marioa Bava in his movie "Three faces of Fear"/"Black Sabbath", although very loosely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.2.64.202 (talk) 21:56, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Acute Bromism

The last time I read the story, I was struck by the narrator's increasing use of "sleeping draughts." Subsequent "independent research" led me to conclude that the most likely sleep aids at the time the story was written were sodium and potassium bromide. Acute bromism is characterized by "restlessness, irritability, ataxia, confusion, hallucinations, psychosis, weakness, stupor and, in severe cases, coma." This maps fairly well to the symptoms described by du Maupassant's narrator. But again, all speculation on my part. Does anyone have a reliable source that explores this approach to the story? 71.67.103.238 (talk) 04:04, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Citation and Expansion

This article is extremely short and is missing a ton of information of the story including information of it's development, and reaction. It is also undersourced and only cites two sources while several sections do not cite any sources these unsourced sections should be fixed and the article's missing infobox should be added to the article as well.--Paleface Jack (talk) 15:24, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Low Importance?

How is article classified as being of low importance. The story itself is pretty significant and not to mention influential, that tag should be changed.--Paleface Jack (talk) 15:27, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

English translation

The link to the English text is broken. I daresay it could be googled, but I wouldn't know what would be a suitable replacement. Rob Burbidge (talk) 14:59, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Citation, Expansion, and Rewriting

This article is underdeveloped, undersourced, and is missing important information on its subject. The lead section in the article contains information that should be moved into the main body of the article and reformatted since it's not present in the article's main body (lead sections are essentially brief overviews of the article's main body and contain short snippets of information found in the main portion of the article). The plot section could be expanded just a little bit as well. The article is also missing a great deal of important information on the short story which needs to be added to the article with proper citations from reliable sources. This information includes those on the story's development (if the information exists), themes, and reception. All of this information should be added, via separate sections and given proper citations from reliable sources. The Influences section is undersourced and not properly formatted. All unsourced information should either be given proper citations from reliable sources or, if none can be found, removed from the article entirely. The section should also be restructured so that it's more like a paragraph than bullet points. This article has enough potential of becoming GA and/or FA status if enough attention is given to it. Hopefully someone will come along and give this article the attention it needs to fulfill its full potential.--Paleface Jack 16:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Upper class or bourgeois?

The summary refers to an "upper-class, unmarried, bourgeois man". This is a contradiction, since bourgeois means middle-class. Perhaps someone who knows the work could decide whether the character is upper class or bourgeois. 86.160.228.56 (talk) 22:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

See Bourgeoisie#France and Francophone countries. DuncanHill (talk) 23:01, 4 June 2024 (UTC)