
The Beetle
Richard Marsh
1897

Shirley Jackson · 1962
160 pages
Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her sister and uncle in a large house outside a village that despises them, after the rest of the family died years earlier from poison. When a cousin arrives hoping to claim the estate, the careful order of Merricat's world is broken.
Gothic Manor, Unreliable Narrator, Small Town Secrets, Creeping Dread, Gothic