Books with title Save the Beetles!

"A fun new way to encounter the spine-tinglers of yesteryear." ―Booklist A 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.

A classic tale of supernatural horror. Richard Marsh's novel _The Beetle_ is the story of a British statesman, Paul Lessingham, who is haunted by his youthful indiscretions in Egypt. A shape-shifting figure follows him from Egypt, intent upon getting revenge on Lessingham. The characters are well drawn: Paul Lessingham, a budding cabinet minister with an ominous gap in his past; lovely Marjorie Linton, a witty New Woman caught between her Radical lover (Paul) and her Tory father; madcap young scientist Sydney Atherton who also adores Miss Linton and is meanwhile working on weapons of mass destruction for the glory of the British Empire; Robert Holt, down-and-out clerk who falls into the clutches of the Beetle.

It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it ...Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when 'The Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of Isis, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has satisfaction. Six people's worlds are turned upside down by murder, mesmerism and human sacrifice as they struggle to save their sanity and above all, their lives.

• Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller• Includes the original illustrationsFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Published in the same year as Dracula , Richard Marsh's little-known occult thriller tells the blood-curdling story of a supernatural, shape-changing creature that takes the form of a mysterious, beautiful woman in order to enact her terrible vengeance on Mankind. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastic creature, "born of God nor man," with supernatural powers and hypnotics, chasing British politician Paul Lessingham through London to seek revenge for the desecration of a sacred tomb Egypt. In imitation of various popular genres of fiction of the late nineteenth century, Marsh unfolds a tale of terror, late imperial fears, and the "return of the repressed", through which the crisis of the late imperial Englishness is revealed. *This book contains a small biography of the author.

"A face looked into mine, and, in front of me, were those dreadful eyes. Then, whether I was dead or living, I said to myself that this could be nothing human,-nothing fashioned in God's image could wear such a shape as that. Fingers were pressed into my cheeks, they were thrust into my mouth, they touched my staring eyes, shut my eyelids, then opened them again, and-horror of horrors!-the blubber lips were pressed to mine-the soul of something evil entered into me in the guise of a kiss."