Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh, in September 1897, hard on the heels of the publication of Dracula, came another novel of the bizarre and supernatural: The Beetle by Richard Marsh. The work was seized upon by the Victorian reading public, who made it even more of a popular success than Stoker's novel, and ensured the fame of the work's author. Unfortunately for Marsh, the success of The Beetle overshadowed much of his other work in the field of the weird tale, and today most of his other supernatural fiction is difficult, if not impossible, to find. Marsh himself was, for many years, shrouded in as much obscurity as his work, and his true identity was not revealed until many years after his death, when his grandson, Robert Aickman, revealed the author's true name in his autobiography. Marsh had been a prolific writer, producing numerous novels and short stories across various genres, but his supernatural fiction had remained scattered and largely forgotten.

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The Haunted Chair and Other Stories,now, Richard Dalby has collected together eighteen stories of horror and the supernatural by Richard Marsh, bringing together for the first time these weird tales by a Victorian master of the genre. In his in-depth introduction, Dalby provides a wealth of detail about Marsh's life and works, providing a full portrait of the man who seemed, in the words of Sir Hugh Greene, to have been "haunted by demons." This 1997 limited edition hardcover of 500 copies, with a dust jacket illustrated by Rob Suggs, made Marsh's supernatural fiction accessible to modern readers and collectors.

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Rob Suggs.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.

External Links

• Richard Marsh. ISFDB entry for Richard Marsh
• The Haunted Chair and Other Stories. ISFDB entry for The Haunted Chair and Other Stories