Has anyone else discovered Richard Marsh?

He wrote a novel called The Beetle, released at the same time Bram Stoker's Dracula came out, and for a year Marsh's book out-sold Stoker's. It has since been neglected.

I've read The Beetle. It's surreal, action-packed, and engaging.

I've also read The Seen and the Unseen, and Both Sides of the Veil, story collections featuring a range from the eerie to the humorous. His work is always well-written and surprisingly modern, with imaginative flourishes and twists as fresh as anything in contemporary works.

Recently I discovered that much, if not all, his work is available via Kindle, many novels and novellas for no cost. Definitely worth checking into. Although he wrote for Victorian and Edwardian readers — he died in 1929 ce — his prose is concise, his pacing brisk, and his intelligence always in evidence.

/ Gene Stewart

I haven’t read any of his writing yet but he is on my radar screen. I hope to get to some of it after I finish “And Quiet Flows the Don”, by Sholokhov.