![]() ![]() Then one day she inquires how long a housefly's life span is. François goes to visit her often, but she never provides the explanation for the question that he most desperately wants to know. Eventually she is sent to a mental asylum and François is given custody of his brother's young son, Henri. Helène seems surprisingly calm throughout the investigation, willing to answer all questions except one: she will not give the reason for killing him. He does and they find the mangled remains of his brother in the family factory, his head and arm crushed under a hydraulic machine press. On the other end of the line is his sister-in-law Hélène who tells him that she has just killed his brother and that he should call the police. The story begins late at night when François Delambre is awakened by the telephone. ![]() The short story "The Fly" is included in Langelaan's short story collection Out of Time (1964). An opera of the same name by Howard Shore premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 2008. It was first adapted into a film in 1958, and then again in 1986. ![]() It appeared in SF The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy, Dell First Edition B119, 1958. It was published in the June 1957 issue of Playboy magazine. "The Fly" is a science fiction horror short story by French-British writer George Langelaan. ![]()
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