While Maupassant's The Wolf fell flat, here he depicts madness in a more convincing and harrowing way. Too uneven and meandering but still worth the read. Even more effective when you know that in his later years Maupassant suffered from paranoia among other things, and was finally committed to an asylum.

Me and Edgar first encountered each other in seventh grade, when I was 13. I think it was love at first sight when we read one of the short story collections. Not only they were morbid and depicted the horrible nature of evil I thought he himself was like one of his tragic characters. This edition was a great chance to finish the rest that I hadn't come across. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke etc.