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Tales of Mystery and Horror- Level: Intro and The Debt Collector

Aug 15, 202326 minEp 71Transcript available on Metacast
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Maurice Level was a French writer of supremely twisted and macabre fiction with demented plotting and gruesome violence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe and admired by the likes of H. P. Lovecraft. But beyond the Grand Guignol set pieces and O' Henry-esque twist endings, Level was a humanist at heart, giving us truly empathic characters, full of sadness and regret, and showing us who these people really are at their core once all trace of society has been stripped away. Here presented are 25 of his tales of terror and madness, many of which were translated into English for the first time for this collection.  We begin with the Introduction and "The Debt Collector". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices