In a bedroom filled with relics taken from Egyptian tombs, a man is found bloody and senseless after a savage attack in the night. And while he lies helpless, in coma, there is a second attack...

A dark, ruthless power reaches from beyond the grave for the magical jewel of the seven stars, the sacred ruby which is the key to a nightmare experiment prepared by a royal sorceress nearly five thousand years ago!

First published by Rider & Co. 1912
Arrow edition 1962
Second impression 1967

Arrow Books Ltd, 178-202 Great Portland Street, London W1

The weird story of the dreaded and inhuman insect known as "The Beetle". From out of dark and mystic Egypt emerges a BEING of horror which changes its form at will and which terrorizes the people of London.

Bent upon revenge for a crime committed against the devotees of an ancient religion, it pursues its victims with an undeviated horror which will make the flesh of the reader creep.

The skill with which its fantastic horrors are presented to the reader make certain the book will not be put down before it has been read from cover to cover.

Originally published as a bound edition by T. Fisher Unwin, London.
© Richard Marsh MCMVII (1907)

This WDL Edition, complete and unabridged, published in England 1959, by WORLD DISTRIBUTORS (MANCHESTER) LTD, 36 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, WC1