About the book: 2017 / For the first time in Russian - one of the most famous Victorian horror novels and one of the central works of the English Gothic tradition, "The Beetle" by Richard Marsh, the history of the ancient a fantastic werewolf creature that has become a nightmare for the residents of London. “The Beetle,” published in 1897 simultaneously with B. Stoker’s “Dracula,” was so popular in its time that it left the novel of the classic vampire genre far behind and went through 24 editions in thirty years. Today, The Beetle, a veritable encyclopedia of Victorian fears, is once again attracting growing interest from readers and researchers..