by Richard Marsh

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Original Title: The Beetle: A Mistery

Author: Richard Marsh

Genres: Fiction, Horror

File version: 1.0

The Beetle is the thrilling classic tale about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting.

Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters: a technique used in many late-nineteenth-century novels —those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example— to create suspense.

Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fiction such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.

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