A review by rach_eb
The Beetle by Richard Marsh

3.0

In a recent interview on Queerly Reads, author K.J. Charles described this book with the following: "The plot really falls apart in the latter half but the first half is a sweaty fever dream of queerness and shifting gender and Orientalism, terrified and fascinated." I personally could not agree more. This was one of my more bizarre reads to date. It's certainly got major problems, the glaring racism of all of the narrators chief among them, but it was nevertheless an interesting peek into the fears of late 19th-century, upper class British white people.