Frenchman Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) makes his first appearance in this short horror story countdown this week. Trained as an attorney, de Balzac found the routine of practicing law boring for a man of his creative genius. He turned to writing. In a frenetic pace he churned out nearly 100 novels and plays in a collective work he titled: La Comédie Humaine. A handful of his short stories are considered horror and for good measure. Tomorrow I will introduce an especially fiendish tale of his that will not disappoint.
Victor Hugo and many popular French writers of the day attended de Balzac's funeral in Paris. It was Hugo, however, who was chosen to given the eulogy to de Balzac.
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