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The Beetle: A Mystery
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The Beetle: A Mystery
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| | | "The Beetle" by Richard Marsh was first published in 1897, not long after Bram Stoker''s "Dracula." ''Dracula'' is now world famous, thanks to its early adoption by first the theatre, and then the movies, while ''The Beetle'' remains all but forgotten. Yet ''The Beetle'' consistently outsold ''Dracula'' as long as it was in print: it was THE Gothic novel that terrified more of Victorian London than Dracula ever did. The tale revolves around a mysterious member of ''The Children of Isis'', coming to London to seek revenge for an act committed 20 years previously in Cairo. Hypnosis, human/insect transformation, murder, white slavery, cannibalism, blackmail and kidnapping all feature in a mystery that keeps you reading until the very last page. Occult aficionados will recognize the book from its inspirational place in Kenneth Grant''s "The Ninth Arch," where its peculiar occult symbolism featured heavily in workings of New Isis Lodge of the OTO.
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Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE actually sold more copies than Braum Stoker's DRACULA in 1897, the year they were both published. Marsh tapped into the ethos of the era, seasoning his deliciously murderous tale with dashes of popular ideas of the times, such as mesmerism and Egyptology. History ultimately honored Stoker's tale, which became the definitive Victorian supernatural fable, but THE BEETLE should not be overlooked. The Beetle--a powerful, shape-shifting creature--comes to London with a gruesome mission, dragging a popular politician's nasty secrets into the light and exacting revenge for Isis's followers.
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