Spider Horror

The Black-Vein Mine has been sealed for generations, a tomb holding the dark memory of a 1947 disaster that claimed an entire crew—including Cole’s great-uncle. Now, armed with a legendary map and a team of explorers, Cole is breaking the seal, determined to uncover the truth buried deep in the mountain. But the mine has not been empty. The moment the welded door is cut open, a foul air of decay escapes, and the silence within is ancient and predatory. When the door slams shut behind them, they are plunged into a labyrinth of absolute darkness. They are not just trapped; they are being ...

A remote Appalachian trail. A ranger investigating a missing hiker. A nest that was never meant to be found. Ranger Clay Rourke thinks he’s looking for a lost tourist. But when he finds a bizarre, silken cocoon, he realizes the truth is far worse. The woods are crawling with something ancient, intelligent, and insatiably hungry. Trapped in a remote valley with a small group of survivors, Clay must descend into the suffocating darkness of a subterranean lair to confront the grotesque matriarch of the swarm. It's a desperate, brutal fight for survival against a relentless horde of creatures...

A winter storm has buried North Dakota in snow and ice. With accidents being reported across the region, Deputy Ron Weller must patrol along the main road through a normally tranquil forest in Beeman County. The night grows menacing as he discovers vehicles that have been run off the road, their drivers mysteriously missing. Strange tracks lead through a region of thick forest known as Devil's Rock. There, Weller makes a horrifying discovery. A monster has awakened. Its hunger is insatiable, and its ferocity has no limits.

When Arkham Advertiser reporter Andy van Nortwick receives a mysterious film reel in the mail, with a simple note: "Maude Brion is very much alive!", he steps onto a path which will lead him to the brink of madness. Brion, the famous actress and film director, vanished a year ago on an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon rainforest, delving into the legend of the Spider Queen. Thrilled by the prospect of his big break, Nortwick swings the funds to launch a rescue mission. He gathers a team of explorers and a keen folklorist to bring back Brion and cement his reputation.

Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. This is not a metaphor. You will dismiss this as ridiculous fearmongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fearmongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection - the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That’s just as well, since the “cure” involves learning what a chain saw tastes like. You can’t feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings.

The jungle doesn't just hide its secrets. It hunts with them. Deep within the uncharted heart of the rainforest, a scientific expedition seeking a biological marvel pushes past the point of no return. The mission, led by an ambitious researcher, is to document a world untouched by humanity. But the crew discovers that something has been waiting for them. Something ancient, intelligent, and fiercely territorial. When their boat's engine mysteriously dies, they are stranded in a realm shrouded by an unnatural fog. The silence is the first warning. The colossal, silk-like strands webbing the ...

An inherited farm was their last hope. For Mark and Angela, moving their family to a remote property in rural Pennsylvania is a desperate, last-ditch effort to escape financial ruin. It’s a chance to start over, to breathe again, a gift from a dead relative Mark barely remembers. But the gift is a tomb. The fields are choked with a strange, pale weed, and the silence is absolute—no birds, no insects, nothing. The locals are wary, their warnings vague and chilling. The farm isn't just secluded; it's sterile, a place scrubbed clean of all familiar life. They are not alone. When they break...

A remote mountain town. A brutal storm. And an ancient evil hungry to be awakened. In the isolated valley of Haven’s Gap, a strange, violent storm leaves more than just broken branches in its wake. The town is draped in thick, milky webs, unlike anything seen before. Deputy Miles is the first to feel the wrongness of it, a feeling that solidifies when a beloved pet vanishes, only to be found perfectly cocooned. Then, a seven-year-old girl is taken. The town’s lines of communication are severed. A landslide seals the only road out. Trapped and alone, the residents discover the horrifying...

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist unearths never-before-reported details in the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life, death, and criminal web, including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell.

The journal leads the explorers to the site of the ruined village in the shadow of a mountain—a hollow mountain with a colossal ziggurat inside. It is a temple built to honor one of the Moche religion’s chief deities—a building-sized spider known as The Decapitator. Once revered for its strength and protection, this colossal Spider is now a caged monster driven insane by centuries of isolation. The massive beast stalks the group through the cavernous temple, ready to torture and slay the entire academic expedition.

Jaunty the Clown just wants to entertain families with lighthearted slapstick antics, but people think of clowns as terrifying, nightmarish creatures who hide in closets or under beds. When Jaunty, along with his fellow performers, are fired from the circus, they're told that the world just doesn't like clowns anymore. Still, clowns have to eat. And since these clowns don't eat children, to make ends meet they're eventually forced to take a job in a popular haunted attraction, the Mountain of Terror. But millions of oversized spiders are about to invade....

The city of Hemmington has fallen to the army of spiders. Becky Willis is trapped inside the Hurst Centre, imprisoned by the spiders with only one method of escape, but she wouldn’t wish it on her worst enemy. Johnny Lambert is right in the middle of ground zero, one of the last residents of Suicide Towers. He has two options, starve to death, or risk it all to make his escape while he still has the strength to do so. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, on the south coast of England, Mary Benson and her daughter Jax are refugees in a seaside town after escaping the spider invasion. Mary ...

The Alabaster Tower is a marvel of modern engineering, a sixty-two-story giant of glass and steel. But when the clock strikes midnight, a routine security drill plunges the skyscraper into a terrifying, unnatural silence. The lockdown is not a drill. It's a trap. Mara Palumbo, the building's sole engineer, discovers the tower has been sealed not for a test, but for a hunt. Alien creatures now crawl the corridors, their webs choking the skyscraper's intricate systems and turning it into a massive, multi-level web. Trapped between floors, a rookie security guard and a handful of civilians ...

Spider Season is the debut collection by Billy Hanson. Deeply haunting and immensely enjoyable, these stories are sure to leave you wide-eyed and breathing heavily.

It is the morning hours in the small town of Hammond and, as the town wakes up it finds that there is something spreading. Something that is not seen until it is too late because by then, you are already infected. At that point, they are already... Hatched.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author known for his works of horror and the fantastic. He is recognized as an influence on modern writers of supernatural fiction. Holy Terrors (published in 1946, a year before his death) is a collection of 14 short stories of which nine are very short and are included in this recording. They are: “The Rose Garden”, “Psychology”, “The Soldier's Rest”, “The Cosy Room”, “The Ceremony”, “Holy Things”, “The Turanians”, “The Happy Children”, and “Munitions of War”.

A terrifying blend of folk horror, monster survival, and mythological thriller, Down Came the Rain and Washed the Spider Out follows Xavier, a wanderer in the remote Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, as he uncovers a dark secret hidden in a cave untouched by civilization. After a harrowing encounter with a massive sentient spider goddess, Xavier must use his cunning to escape her web—but his freedom comes with a grim pact. Armed with ancient gold artifacts, Xavier spreads tales of treasure to lure others into Nanci’s lair. Each new victim is a sacrifice to keep the beast at bay… and ...

Giant arachnids, killer snowmen, ravenous sharks, ghostly motorcades, and the mother of all lobsters—it’s all in here, including a new Samantha Moon story! Included in this collection: "Vampire Widow" - Tammy Moon hears a distant, telepathic cry for help... and convinces her mother, Samantha Moon, to go on a road trip deep into the heart of the Mojave desert to help something ancient... and massive. "Little Snowmen Everywhere" - They are new to town, trying to fit in. All is going well until the first snowfall. That's when their neighbors frantically start building little snowmen. Now, ...

They’ve been here longer than us. And they’re still watching. From the shadows of abandoned buildings to the glow of our screens, spiders weave secrets few dare to see. In this gripping horror anthology, Arachnid: True Accounts of the Webbed Unknown, G.J. Fene spins eight chilling tales that expose the hidden threads binding fear, obsession, and the monstrous unknown. A woman discovers human teeth embedded in spider eggs behind her apartment vent. A social media star wakes each morning sewn into living silk. A mother learns every spider she’s ever killed remembers—and wants revenge....