Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on 12 October 1857, in North London, to lace merchant Joseph Heldmann (1827–96) and Emma Marsh (1830–1911), a lace-manufacturer's daughter. Marsh's grandson Robert Aickman was a notable writer of short "strange stories". Many of these have been republished recently, beginning with The Beetle in 2004. Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of fiction and numerous short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humour. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle, which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), and was initially even more popular, outselling Dracula six times over. Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. Genre fiction, including horror, crime, romance, and humour
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