The first of the several diary entries that make up this story records its narrator saluting a mysterious Brazilian ship sailing up the Seine.
This story describes a dream in which a butterfly "as large as a hundred worlds" travels from star to star, pollinating them with the light from its wings. An old legend about a he-goat and she-goat with human faces incessantly quarrelling as a shepherd leads them across the sands is told by a monk in Mont St. Michel to the narrator of this story. Though he seals a carafe of water and a glass of milk before going to bed, the narrator of this story notices in the morning that they are (*) gone. The first of the several diary entries that make up this story records its narrator saluting a mysterious Brazilian ship sailing up the Seine. After seeing the title creature blur his image in the mirror, the narrator locks and sets fire to his house to destroy it, killing all his servants in the process. For 10 points, name this horror story about a vampire, sometimes considered the first manifestation of the syphilitic madness that killed its author Guy de Maupassant.
This story describes a dream in which a butterfly "as large as a hundred worlds" travels from star to star, pollinating them with the light from its wings.
“Le Horla” [or “The Horla”]