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Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857 1915), who wrote under the pen name Richard Marsh, was a bestselling, versatile, and prolific author of gothic, crime, adventure, romance, and comic fiction. His greatest success came in 1897 with the publication of "The Beetle: A Mystery," a novel that articulated many of the key themes of late nineteenth century urban gothic writing and outsold its closest rival, Bram Stoker s "Dracula," well into the twentieth century. This book, the first specifically on Marsh s work, establishes his credentials as a literary force within the late nineteenth century gothic...

The Valancourt edition includes a very readable and enlightening introduction by Minna Vuohelainen, scholar of Richard Marsh and senior lecturer in English literature at Edge Hill University. In it, one learns about Marsh's somewhat colorful background, including his imprisonment for financial fraud Vuohelainen puts Marsh's history in context and shows how it likely influenced his writing. Also, London was a city going through very many cultural changes and tumultuous events in Marsh's time (including the 1888 Ripper murders), and the introduction describes how events of the time were...