CMLIT 153

Reading Questions

The Horla

1. What is the nature of the narrator's nighttime affliction? What are his nightmares about?

2. What is the significance of the Brazilian ship?

3. How does the narrator attempt to discover who is drinking his water while he sleeps?

4. What is the point of the hypnotist subplot that takes place in Paris?

5. What other supernatural or inexplainable events happen when the narrator returns home?

6. Who is the Horla, according to the narrator? How does he "see" him?

7. Explain the end: what happens?