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The Beetle. A Mystery

by Richard Marsh

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction
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"The Beetle: A Mystery" by Richard Marsh is a Gothic horror novel published in 1897. A shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity arrives in London seeking vengeance against a British politician, Paul Lessingham. Through mesmerism and terror, the creature manipulates innocent victims to further its dark purpose. Told through four different narrators, the story weaves together mystery, supernatural horror, and psychological control as the Beetle pursues its prey through Victorian London, threatening everyone connected to its target. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the description, “occult” in the subject metadata, and “supernatural” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “supernatural”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “supernatural”· in subject
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Tales”· in subject

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The Beetle

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2004-02-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 211 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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