<strong>Spider</strong> is gaunt threadbare unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language... » 

Spider is gaunt threadbare unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered contruction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett Poe and Paul Bowles SPIDER is a tale of horror and madness storytelling and skepticism a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror. Spider is gaunt threadbare unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered contruction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett Poe and Paul Bowles SPIDER is a tale of horror and madness storytelling and skepticism a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror. Spider is gaunt threadbare unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered contruction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett Poe and Paul Bowles SPIDER is a tale of horror and madness storytelling and skepticism a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror. «