Richard Marsh, 1857-1915
Biographical note
Pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, which was published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and was initially even more popular. The Beetle remained in print until 1960, and was subsequently resurrected in 2004 and 2007.
Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He began to publish short stories, mostly adventure tales, as "Bernard Heldmann," before adopting the name "Richard Marsh" in 1893. Several of the prolific Marsh's novels were published posthumously.
Works
- The Mahatma's Pupil [1893]
- The Devil's Diamond [1893]
- Mrs Musgrave and Her Husband [1895]
- The Beetle: A Mystery [1897]
- Crime and the Criminal [1897]
- The Duke and the Damsel [1897]
- Philip Bennion's Death [1897]
- The House of Mystery [1898]
- Curios: Some Strange Adventures of Two Bachelors [1898]
- The Goddess: A Demon [1900]
- The Seen and the Unseen [1900]
- Marvels and Mysteries [1900]
- The Joss: A Reversion [1901]
- The Magnetic Girl [1903]
- The Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings [1905]
- A Spoiler of Men [1905]
- The Coward Behind the Curtain [1908]
- Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life [1912]
- The Adventures of Judith Lee [1916]
- The Deacon's Daughter [1917]
- On the Jury [1918]
- Amusement Only
- Between the Dark and the Daylight
- A Duel
- A Hero of Romance / illustrated by Harold Copping
- A Master of Deception / illustrated by Dudley Tennant
- Miss Arnott's Marriage
- A Second Coming
- A Woman Perfected
