Tales of Supernatural Terror by Guy de Maupassant, Pan
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Feb 8th, 2026. Artwork published in
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These tales of supernatural terror by French author Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), master of the short story, were selected and translated by Arnold Kellett, and published by Pan Books in 1972. The cover art is by Josh Kirby, depicting the protagonist of the first story, La Main d’écorché (The Hand). The suffocatingly narrow typeface to go with it is Rubens. Its diagonal terminals nicely echo the fingernails.
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See Mademoiselle Fifi y otros cuentos de guerra for another book by Guy de Maupassant that features a severed body part on the cover: