The Beetle 🐞. A Mystery

✅ The Beetle 🐞 by Richard Marsh was first 🥇 published in 1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣7️⃣, not ❌️ long after Bram Stokers 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 2️⃣0️⃣ years previously in Cairo. Hypnosis, humaninsect 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 Grants The Ninth Arch, where its peculiar occult symbolism featured heavily in workings ⚙️ of New 🆕 Isis Lodge of the OTO.

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