'The Beetle' tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of
neither god nor man," with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who
stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siecle
London in search of vengeance for the defilement of a sacred tomb
in Egypt. Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational
turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du
Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. 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. Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of the
British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann
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