The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh

"The Beetle: A Mystery" by Richard Marsh is a Gothic horror novel published in 1897. A shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity arrives in London seeking vengeance against a British politician, Paul Lessingham. Through mesmerism and terror, the creature manipulates innocent victims to further its dark purpose. Told through four different narrators, the story weaves together mystery, supernatural horror, and psychological control as the Beetle pursues its prey through Victorian London, threatening everyone connected to its target. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915
Title The Beetle: A Mystery
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beetle_(novel)
Credits Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 81.6 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Horror tales
Subject London (England) -- Fiction
Subject Revenge -- Fiction
Subject Monsters -- Fiction
Subject Politicians -- Fiction
Subject British -- Egypt -- Fiction
Subject Egyptologists -- Fiction
Subject Egypt -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction
Subject Paranormal fiction
Subject Champnell, Augustus (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 5164
Release Date
Most Recently Updated May 29, 2022
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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