The Beetle. A Mystery

Richard Marsh First published 1897

About this book

The Beetle, written in 1897 by British author Richard Marsh, is a classic gothic horror story set in Victorian London. The book follows the characters of Paul Lessingham, Robert Holt, Sydney Atherton, Marjorie Lindon and Augustus Champnell all having a different encounter with the Beetle, a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian creature that seeks revenge for wrongs done in Egypt two decades before.

Subjects

  • antiquities
  • british
  • brothers
  • brothers, fiction
  • classic literature
  • collection and preservation
  • comic books, strips
  • comics & graphic novels, manga, gay & lesbian
  • egypt, fiction
  • egyptologists
  • english literature
  • fiction
  • fiction, gothic
  • fiction, horror
  • fiction, occult & supernatural
  • gay youth
  • london (england), fiction
  • monsters
  • politicians
  • revenge
  • thriller