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...r's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense. Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of...

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...after a novel, by Charles Kingsley.) The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky's later life. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. The stories have elements of the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making ...

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...m it, how all animals would proceed from it, beginning with some sort of beetle and ending with a man. A man of different substance from us. Miss G...

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...word. When they arrived at the huge helicopter, Susan thought it looked like a big, black beetle. Two agents escorted them up the stairs and into th...

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... shrieking Walter. Walter loved the world. In summertime there were always many Maybeetles flying around or climbing in trees. The brown, fat, shiny beetles would eat leaves, and the kids were allowed to shake the trees and collect them. It was much fun to keep them in shoeboxes with small holes punched in them, then feed the beetles until they really stunk and Mother or ...

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...oshana Glizerin 1 I n a gloomy forest, far, far away, there lived a small beetle. His name was Buzz. Buzz was afraid of the dark. He had a caterp... ...old on, Dana, I’ll get help,” Buzz promised, and flew to see a bombardier beetle. “Mister bombardier beetle, you are very strong. Please help Dana... ...f her cocoon!” “I’d love to, but I’m way too busy. Maybe another time,” the beetle answered, and went straight to sleep. Buzz hurried over to a bee... ...look at the hero. Wolves and bears, owls and eagles all looked at the tiny beetle with great respect. They admired Buzz for his courage. From then ...

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... the pebble and the flower, the magician made many other kinds of animals: beetles, fish, snakes, monkeys, birds, and bears. Still, not a single anima...

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...ike the frogs, others from slime, as the worms, others from donkeys, as the beetles, others from cabbage, as caterpillars, others from fruit, as the... ...nimals. For example, myrrh appears very agreeable to men and intolerable to beetles and bees. Oil also, which is useful to men, destroys wasps and be...

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...o were the Arabs? They were desert insects. Scarabs. Scared Arabs. Scared beetles. Scampering over the sand when frightened. Armored. Black. ... ... Egyptians. As a sacred animal. To denote what? Bringing new generations of beetles emerging from a ball of dung. Rolling a globe over the desert... ...writing. Used as sacred Amulets to denote meanings of sacredness. Battling beetles. Warlike insects hoarding balls of shit. Unsuccessfully tryin... ...before reptile took to the air and shed their heavy armor. Then there is the beetled look of a gorilla, an armored beetle: almost modern in its sick...

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...ailor who had touched port. “For me?” I became suspicious! I fingered the beetle-shaped oval, unlike any I had seen. An amethyst was set in the cent...

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...d up to her nostrils. She listened to termites munching the fallen trunk, a beetle scrabbling in the crevices. Seen from the corner of her eye, it r... ...htShout listened to leaves crumpling beneath his son's jacket, watched as a beetle scurried away from the red shock of hair fallen about FeatherFly'...

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...rcely sense at all. Nature, including a caterpillar, a southern pine beetle, and a red shouldered stink bug traversed on her body most intimatel...

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...ed upon by the Great Spirit to protect every liv­ ing thing, even the huge black beetle that scared him. Listening to his grandfather, he wondered ho... ...he Puma, the Eagle, the Hawk, the Sparrow, the Snake, the Fish, the Beaver, the Beetle, and Gray Shadow, the Bear. A soft thumping of a drum starte...

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...ailor who had touched port. “For me?” I became suspicious! I fingered the beetle-shaped oval, unlike any I had seen. An amethyst was set in the cent...

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...e wish Crabbe weren't so severe. We may be obliged to recognize the actual beetles and other bugs incident upon the shepherd's life, recog- nize, too,...

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...uthor still writes frequently, coming up with new ideas that few people will read, and returning to the foot of that mountain to roll up, like a dung beetle, a new ball of even more reprehensible nonsense. One must imagine Sisyphus is happy. ...

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...s of delight. And for the fifth summer in succession, Stalky, McT urk, and Beetle (this was before they reached the dignity of a study) had built like... ... He removed the pipes, swept up all loose match-ends, and departed to warn Beetle and McT urk. But it was characteristic of the boy that he did not ap... ... surprised when the boy meekly, as he knew how, begged to propose himself, Beetle, and McT urk as candidates; con- fessed to a long-smothered interest... ...soul had been galled by chance-heard remarks from the three, and specially Beetle. So he was gracious to that repentant sinner, and entered the three ... ...ered the three names in his book. Then, and not till then, did Stalky seek Beetle and McT urk in their house form-room. They were stowing away books ... ...nner. ‘Blessing they’re so big.” “Con-found! Did you hide our pipes?” said Beetle. “Oh, no. Left ‘em in the middle of the hut, of course. What a blind... ...o. Left ‘em in the middle of the hut, of course. What a blind ass you are, Beetle! D’you think nobody thinks but yourself? Well, we can’t use the hut ... ...tn’t be seen that way for a bit.” “Yes, and where else are we to go?” said Beetle. “You chose that place, too—an’—an’ I wanted to read this afternoon.... ... sat on a desk drumming his heels on the form. “You’re a despondin’ brute, Beetle. Sometimes I think I Rudyard Kipling shall have to drop you altoget...

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...any kind of fly, as the ant fly, the flesh fly, or wall fly; or the dor or beetle which you may find under cow dung; or a bob which you will find in t... ...ung; or a bob which you will find in the same place, and in time will be a beetle; it is a short white worm, like to and bigger than a gentle; or a co... ...ms; in May, June, and July, he will bite at any fly, or at cherries, or at beetles with their legs and wings cut off, or at any kind of snail, or at t... ...der weather, nearer the bottom; and if you fish for him on the top, with a beetle, or any fly, then be sure to let your line be very long, and to keep... ... some other counties, called a grub; and is bred of the spawn or eggs of a beetle, which she leaves in holes that she digs in the ground under cow or ... ...all winter, and in March or April comes to be first a red and then a black beetle. Gather a thousand or two of these, and put them, with a peck or two...

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... “I am set to light the ground, While the beetle goes his round: 17 Follow now the beetl...

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...hese ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the dust. She was filled with repulsion. They turned off ... ...ut him, that made him attractive. ‘I’m not afwaid of anything except black-beetles,’ said the Pussum, looking up suddenly and staring with her black e... ...ence. ‘I’m not,’ she protested. ‘I’m not afraid of other things. But black-beetles—ugh!’ she shuddered convulsively, as if the very thought were too m... ... a man who has been drinking, ‘that you are afraid of the sight of a black-beetle, or you are afraid of a black-beetle biting you, or doing you some h... ...lliday. ‘I don’t know,’ replied Gerald, looking round the table. ‘Do black-beetles bite? But that isn’t the point. Are you afraid of their biting, or ... ...ith her. She was aware of Mademoiselle standing near, like a little French beetle, observant and calculating. She moved away with Winifred, saying the... ...f Mademoiselle’s neat, brittle finality of form. She was like some elegant beetle with thin ankles, perched on her high heels, her glossy black dress ... ...intimates. Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle’s, she had rows of round heavy col- lars, like a column of quoits, o... ...eck. He remembered her: her astonishing cultured elegance, her diminished, beetle face, the astounding long elegant body, on short, ugly legs, 250 wi...