Valancourt Books continues its reissues of the mystery works of
The Beetle's
Richard Marsh (1857—1915) with
The Goddess: A Demon (1900), in which the savage murder of a gambler suggests a supernatural cause. It's edited by Minna Vuohelainen, who published an
article in
Clues 25.4 (2007) on Marsh's possibly autobiographical prison narrative "For Debt" (1902). Read the sniffy piece "
The Yarning School" (
The Academy, Nov. 3, 1900), which discusses Marsh's place in the type of literature that "begin[s] a story anywhere and continu[es] without art or insight, but with reckless invention" (423), along with authors such as Fergus Hume (
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, 1886).
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