Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France
by Joan C. Kessler
Category: Fiction

An anthology of thrillers and chillers from 19th Century France. In Theophile Gautier's The Dead in Love, a man develops an obsessive passion for a woman who has returned from the grave, while Honore de Balzac's The Red Inn is on a crime which is committed by one person in thought and another in deed.