Spider Horror

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...

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 virus designed to control the burgeoning spider population causes them to mutate into overgrown, venomous killers. A large horde of the spiders take over the small village of Newtown, killing all but two of its residents. Laurence Johnson and Chloe Jones have only been together one night after Laurence parted ways with his wife. They find themselves trapped in the house with no way of escaping. Their only hope is to try and stay alive long enough for the army to intervene. Lorna Johnson is on the outskirts of town with nowhere to go and the spider invasion taking control. Her only hope of...

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 small-town farmer needs $500 cash after a devastating divorce, so he takes a miserable overnight job cleaning out the town's colossal, derelict grain silos. What he uncovers beneath the concrete floor is not sludge, but a vast, living, subterranean network. The Nest Is Awake. A swarm of alien arachnids—intelligent, coordinated, and using corrosive venom—is emerging from the earth's depths. They communicate with rhythmic clicks and travel undetected through the valley's drainage and irrigation pipes. The annual Harvest Feast has just begun, drawing the entire population into a single, ...

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 ...

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. 

She came for data. She became the prey. Dr. Maren Reid has one chance to salvage her ruined career: prove that the "Exclusion Zone" isn't a geological disaster, but a habitat for a species the world has forgotten. She expects radiation, treacherous terrain, and silence. She doesn't expect the silk. When Maren triggers a trap in the deep woods, she is dragged into the subterranean lair of Tcklick—a creature of chitin, shadow, and terrifying intelligence. He is the Weaver, the Warden of the Labyrinth, and he has a simple rule: No one leaves. Maren tries to use logic to negotiate her release...

Tracey thought surviving the horror was the end. She was wrong. Marked at birth and hidden inside a bloodline soaked in lies, she discovers the evil that hunted her was never random. Her mother knew. Her grandmother served it. And the thing beneath the old churches and broken homeplaces has been waiting for one daughter to return and open the line for good. Now bodies are surfacing. Old women are dying. The dead are still whispering. And the queen is no longer trying to get to Tracey from the outside. It is waking inside her. If you like horror that mixes bloodline secrets, ritual terror, ...

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 Walking Dead meets Arachnophobia. One experimental cure saves a woman’s life. It also unleashes the end of the world. When Hannah Dresden is diagnosed with cancer, her family agrees to a radical medical treatment involving a genetically modified spider. The cure works. Hannah survives. Then the spiders begin to spread. They grow larger. They multiply faster. Entire cities fall silent as civilization collapses under an invasion no one saw coming. James Dresden will do anything to protect his family: his wife, his young daughter, and the child yet to be born. As the world descends into ...

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 ...

She Came Back revenge takes more than it gives They thought she was dead. They were wrong. Cindy Woods was supposed to be another forgotten victim: murdered in a gas-station parking lot, raped for thirty-one days, a bullet in the neck, dumped in an alley like trash. Eight months in a coma. Eight more forging herself into a weapon no one saw coming. Now the Imperial Reds are dying, one by one. Trap houses burn. Families are erased. Bodies are left flayed, broken, arranged like love letters written in blood. Whitey Jones, the man who laughed while he destroyed her life, watches everything he ...

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.

Christopher Webb, the Amazing Spider-Mage, brings his exotic arachnid performers aboard the 1940s-themed Pacific Dream cruise for what should be a week of elegant entertainment. But beneath his stage confidence lies a secret terror—one that makes his career choice both ironic and perilous. When Christopher catches the eye of Cleo Laveau, the ship’s mysterious psychic medium, their attraction ignites something unexpected. Cleo’s theatrical mysticism hides genuine power, and a moment of jealous rage unleashes forces neither of them understands.

Tracey thought the worst stayed buried under Mercer. She was wrong. A year after surviving the terror that nearly consumed her city, Tracey is still carrying the scar of the unfinished opening that almost turned her into part of the line. She and the others who made it out—Julie, Marisol, and Detective Aaron Vale—have spent every day since doing what survivors do when the world wants closure too fast: watching, keeping copies, and answering the thread when it lights up with one word: Here? Then the dead start showing up downriver. Women found with silver studs buried in their ears. Skin...

Deep down, everyone has a few spiders inside them... Jane returns to her therapist after more than a year away. Her husband has left. Her children have been taken. But that's not why she's here. She needs to tell someone what happened on the camping trip. About the cabin they found across the river. About the thing that was waiting inside. As Jane speaks, the past and present begin to blur. The forest outside the window seems to be listening. And some confessions, once spoken, can never be taken back

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump has called the ongoing interest in the details about Epstein’s web of clients and enablers a “hoax.” But in this book, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist delivers the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life and death...

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...

“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times “One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,”...