Biographical Note
of friendship, but not easily amenable to social conventions, and, in the hour of his extreme success, misanthropical, suspicious, and unsympathetic. That he was predestined to mental disease many touches in his work, sane and powerful as it is, have been thought to suggest; and in particular the extraordinary vampire-story, "Le Horla," 1887, which deals entirely with overmastering nervous delusion.
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