The edition includes a historical introduction and notes by translator Jessica Sequeira. Title: The Gates of Hell Author: Maurice Level, Jessica Sequeira Publisher: Black Coat Press ISBN: 9781612275987 Length: 0.44 inch Width: 5.0 inch Languages: English Format: PaperBack Category: Horror & Paranormal Fiction Subjects: Fiction / Horror Publication Date: Pages: 192 Height: 8.0 inch Weight: 0. His stories have been compared to those of his cousin Marcel Schwob, as well as Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Octave Mirbeau, Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Allan Poe. Maurice Level (1875-926) was a French writer of fiction and drama whose macabre stories were printed in Paris newspapers and staged by the Grand-Guignol theater. Their horror is based on human behavior and psychological drama rather than supernatural elements, and the subtle beauty of their descriptions only further intensifies the turn of the knife when it inevitably comes - a truly decadent pleasure. These rich and carefully plotted stories ratchet up suspense, sentence by bewitching sentence. These tales, in the tradition of the contes cruels, range from a man who keeps a secret with devastating effects to a maniac who finds thrills in witnessing violent accidents, to a blind man who purposely loses his eyesight, to a prostitute who sleeps with the man who executed her husband. The Gates of Hell is a collection of twenty-six stories originally published in 1910.
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