"La Peur" is an 1882

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

. It was first published in the October 23, 1882 issue of Le Gaulois, and later included in

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in 1887. The short plot concerns the relation of incidents of fear told on the deck of a boat bound for Africa. Maupassant also wrote a second similar story also called La Peur in 1884 for the Figaro, set on a train.

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