Marsh, Richard

1857 - 9 August 1915

British writer, real name Richard Benjamin Heldmann. Prolific novelist, known primarily for mystery and suspense novels, the most well-known of which is The Beetle.

Sites:
Brief biographical note
[U of Reading Library, Speciall Collections]
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Brief biographical note
[Ebooks Library]
Bibliography
[Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Tartarus Press]
Bibliography
[FantasticFiction]


Etexts:
All etexts from BlackMask unless otherwise noted

The Beetle  [1897]
- at Gaslight [ToC]
- at Project Gutenberg
- at BlackMask
- at KnowledgeRush [ToC]
"An Experience" (43K)
"How He Passed!" (44K)
"The Mask" [1900] (53K)
"A Set of Chessmen" [1890] (42K)
"A Silent Witness" [1900] (27K)


Books:
Publisher's blurb
for the 2004 edition of The Beetle, edited by Julian Wolfreys [Broadview Press]


Publisher's blurb
for the 1997 collection (now out-of-print, alas) of Marsh's ghostly work, The Haunted Chair and Other Stories, edited by Richard Dalby [Ash-Tree Press]
  


"Richard Marsh."