Richard Marsh’s The Beetle outsold Dracula in 1897 — and then nearly vanished from literary history. This annotated edition restores the context modern readers need: historical footnotes, cultural commentary, and marginalia that illuminate the novel’s fears of empire, of the Other, of things that refuse to stay in their proper place. A classic of late-Victorian horror, finally read as its first audience would have read it.
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There Be Monsters: Then and Now
A horror anthology where the most terrifying monsters are the ones closest to human. Then and Now is the first volume of the series, collecting eight stories that move between centuries and locations — from Victorian England to modern America — where creatures lurk at the edges of what’s explainable. Fans of creature mythology and slow-burn horror will find something that lingers.