Product Description

'I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him...and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe...' From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of horror, 'born of neither God nor man', which can change its form at will. It is bent on revenge for a crime committed against the devotees of an ancient religion. At large in London, it pursues its victims without mercy and no one, it seems, is safe from its gruesome clutches. Richard Marsh's weird, compelling and highly original novel, which once outsold Dracula, is both a horror masterpiece and a fin de siecle melodrama embracing the fears and concerns of late Victorian society. Long out of print, The Beetle is now available in this Wordsworth edition, ready to chill you to the marrow and give you nightmares.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15123 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 4.90" w x 7.70" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
"The Beetle is a great read...I enthusiastically recommend this book."

J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
"The Beetle is a great read...I enthusiastically recommend this book."

From the Publisher
The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.