# The Beetle

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- Book: [The Beetle](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-marsh/the-beetle) ([The Beetle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-marsh/the-beetle.md))
- Authors: [Richard Marsh](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-marsh)
- Publisher: poisoned_pen_press
- ISBN: 978-14-9269-971-2
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2020-04-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" A fun new way to encounter the spine-tinglers of yesteryear." —BooklistA horror classic for the modern reader, presented by the Horror Writers Association. Rediscover the classic and come face-to-face with a creature " born of neither god nor man" First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, the Haunted Library Horror Classics edition of The Beetle is a tale of revenge that takes the reader on a dark journey, one that explores the crisis of late imperial England through a fantastical and horrific lens.