Fading Supernatural

The Beetle: A Mystery

by Richard Marsh

A family is terrorised by a shape-shifting cult figure pursuing an old debt with a diplomat’s stolen fortune, told from four increasingly unreliable perspectives. It outsold a certain more famous vampire novel published the very same year, which the shelf finds a little amusing in hindsight. Marsh clearly understood that horror works best when no single witness can be fully trusted.

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Reading time

About 7 hr 35 min

Where to find it

On the Fading Supernatural shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #5164. In the public domain in the United States.