Richard Marsh – The Complete Collection

By Richard Marsh

20 Complete Works of Richard Marsh

 
A Duel
A Hero of Romance
A Master of Deception
A Second Coming
A Woman Perfected
Amusement Only
Confessions of a Young Lady
Between The Dark and the Daylight
Frivolities
Miss Arnott's Marriage
The Beetle
The Chase of the Ruby
The Coward Behind the Curtain
The Crime and the Criminal
The Datchet Diamonds
The Twickenham Peerage
The Woman with One Hand (and) Mr. Ely's Engagement
Tom Ossington's Ghost
Under One Flag
Violet Forster's Lover
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Benjamin
• Release date: Jun 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9788828343455

Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh (1857-1915) was the pseudonym of bestselling English author Richard Bernard Heldmann. Born in North London to Jewish parents, he began publishing adventure stories for boys in 1880. He soon found work as co-editor of Union Jack, a weekly boy’s magazine, but this arrangement ended by June 1883 with his arrest for cheque forgery. Sentenced to eighteen months of hard labor, Heldmann emerged from prison and began using his pseudonym by 1888. The Beetle (1897), his most commercially successful work, is a classic of the horror genre that draws on the tradition of the sensation novel to investigate such concerns of late-Victorian England as poverty, the New Woman, homosexuality, and empire. Published the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Beetle was initially far more popular and sold out on its first printing almost immediately. His other works, though less successful, include The Goddess: A Demon (1900) and A Spoiler of Men (1905), both pioneering works of horror and science fiction. A prolific short story writer, he was published in Cornhill Magazine, The Strand Magazine, and Belgravia.