The Horla Revisited

Dark Romance, occult horror, and demonic possession feature in Sandrine Bessancort's revised 2025 re-imagining of Guy de Maupassant's nineteenth-century tale describing human bondage at its most foul and inescapable. Read on as a carefree and financially secure  Parisian bachelor takes lodgings with the widow of a man recently fished from the Seine and pronounced a suicide. That widow being a buxom Parisian landlady fully intent on showing her new lodger the reasons behind her husband's departure in a way that will ensure the once carefree man will soon come to understand why  her former partner chose to terminate his association with existence. And find himself utterly unable to follow the man's example as this demon in female form tormentor takes a firmer control of his mind to force him to perform acts he would have once thought unthinkable in order to satisfy her desire to do evil and see evil done. Acts that include murder itself! Retro and re-imagined fiction influenced by the short-form masters of yesteryear for the reader who enjoys having the imagination fed without the writer of that story seeing a need to dot and cross every relevant vowel and consonant.   Ms Bessancort is a legal professional working out of Honfleur and is the author of "The Servant Revisited" and "Ancient Sorceries Revisited"; along with a number of other re-imagined and female-led stories of classic provenance.