The Horla

00:00:11 "Primitive... Primitive...

00:01:08 the silence which prevails on calm nights

00:02:05 "Never have any groans of suffering pained me so much as that desolate appeal

00:05:02 rapid, surprising and inexplicable effect.

00:06:37 My state is really very peculiar.

00:09:07 2nd of June.

00:11:18 2nd of July. I have come back, quite cured.

00:14:04 I accidentally noticed the waterbottle was full up to the cut-glass stopper.

00:15:20 that double, mysterious life

00:16:18 I have just been through some surprising ordeals.

00:18:08 All the water had been drunk,...

00:19:33 Then the flower raised itself

00:20:28 7th of August.

00:22:36 and I was surprised and uneasy

00:24:26 Somebody possesses my soul and governs it!

00:26:11 I opened my eyes without moving.

00:27:05 He whom frightened first terrors of trusting peoples

00:27:43 but the Horla will make of man what man has made of the horse and the ox:

00:28:25 Why not one more? Why not, also, other trees with immense

00:29:05 But I see it, it flutters from star to star

00:29:54 and pretended to write very assiduously, to deceive Him

00:31:46 25th of August.

00:34:31 Why this transparent, unrecognizable body, this body belonging to a spirit

00:36:20 I suppose I must kill myself!