Posts Tagged ‘giant spider’
Monday, May 29th, 2023
Way down on the list of my collecting vectors is books about giant spiders, so when I saw in a Heritage Auctions lot I decided to track down a copy.
Gotthelf, Jeremias (pseudonym for Albert Bitzius). The Black Spider. John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., 1958. First English language edition, a Near Fine+ copy with slight spine lean and former owners name inside front cover under flap, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with 1/4″ chip at head, two pinhead-sized abrasions at heel front join, wear at points, and moderate age darkening to white portion of spine. Nineteenth century allegorical horror story about evil made manifest as a giant black spider. Introduced and translated from the original German by H. M. Waidson. Barron, Horror Literature 2-35. Not in Bleiler’s Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Bought off a fellow Biblio dealer for $21.25.
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Friday, January 6th, 2023
More purchases from Half Price Books and Recycled Books, one of which was actually a mistake.
Hill, Joe. The Fireman. Morrow, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Supplements a later limited edition. Bought for $14.99 at Half Price Books.
King, Stephen. Elevation. Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. First edition hardback (the UK and the US edition came out the same day, which means the UK should precede by several hours, if that matters), a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a tiny bit of surface wear. Castle Rock novella that looks like a cross between Thinner, Peyton Place and Up. Bought for $9.99 at Half Price Books.
Machen, Arthur. The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light. John Lane, The Bodley head/Roberts Bros., 1895. Second edition, a Very Good copy with wear along spine edges, wear at head and heel, touches of wear at points, pencil scribbling on front free endpaper, a few stray words of pencil writing, former owner Bookplate of William H. Sahud and small bookstore label to inside front cover (plus foxing shadow of that label on FFE), front inner hinge just starting to crack, and age darkening to pages. This was a screw-up, as I missed the Second Edition statement, and didn’t know off the top of my head that the true first came out in 1894, not 1895. Denielson, Arthur Machen: A Bibliography page 21. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1070. Bleiler, Checklist of Science-Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 130. Bought for $240 at Recycled Books. (“This is one of those damn ‘learning opportunities,’ isn’t it?”)
Strand, Jeff. Clowns vs. Spiders. No Publisher, 2019 (2022). Print on demand trade paperback original, a Fine copy. I picked it up because of the ridiculous title, and because I have a weakness for giant spider novels. Bought for $9.99 at Half Price Books.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2014
I’m running out of Halloween season, so it’s time for a post on that perennial source of creepiness: Spiders.
There are few things that triggers our primal fear reflex more than spiders, so here’s a Whitman’s Spider Sampler of Creepiness.
Here’s a family whose house was infested with deadly brown recluses.
If you’re afraid of spiders, you almost certainly don’t want to work at a tarantula farm.
An encounter with the South American Goliath birdeater spider whose feet can stretch a foot in diameter.
I’ve tried to avoid the common gifs everyone’s already seen, but I am intrigued by this completely unconvincing, yet oddly unnerving film snippet, and I’d like to know what (presumably silent) film it’s from:
Here’s the exceptionally creepy spider attack from The Mist:
And here’s Cyriak’s deeply disturbing “Cobwebs”:
Let’s end on a lighter note. There’s a Simon’s Cat with a spider:
And this:
Tags:creepy, giant spider, Halloween, Horror, Spiders, The Mist, video
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Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
Looks like I’ve been falling down on my Giant Spider reporting duties. A retro black-and-white giant spider film has been released called, oddly enough, The Giant Spider.
There’s an IMDB listing for it as well.
Tags:giant spider, Monster Movies, Movies, Spiders, video
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