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 construction 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.