Maurice Level

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Maurice Level


Born
in Vendôme, France
August 29, 1875

Died
April 15, 1926

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Maurice Level was a writer of fiction and drama who specialized in short stories of the macabre which were printed regularly in the columns of Paris newspapers and sometimes staged by Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, the repertory company in Paris's Pigalle district devoted to melodramatic productions which emphasized blood and gore.

H.P. Lovecraft observed of Level's fiction in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927): "This type, however, is less a part of the weird tradition than a class peculiar to itself — the so-called conte cruel, in which the wrenching of the emotions is accomplished through dramatic tantalizations, frustrations and gruesome physical horrors."
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Thirty Hours with a Corpse ...

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Phăng Teo

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Tales Of Mystery And Horror

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3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1920 — 15 editions
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Those Who Return

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The Gates of Hell

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3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1910 — 20 editions
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Night and Silence

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Las puertas del Infierno

4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1910 — 3 editions
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The Grip of Fear

3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1908 — 52 editions
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A Madman

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“And round them, as in them, was a great Darkness....”
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