Résultats pour "Spider" dans Littérature et fiction

Ellis is obsessed by the spiders that inhabit the crumbling house where he lives with his dad, his older sister and Great-aunt Mafi - and also by a need to find out more about his mother, whose death overshadows the family's otherwise happy existence. He is a sensitive soul; awkward and out of place most of the time but funny, too, and with an embarrassing habit of speaking his thoughts aloud, whatever the company.

Fans of The Twilight Zone, Tales of the Unexpected, or Hammer monster movies will enjoy this horror/comedy novella about Will, a man working in the nation’s biggest natural history museum, a dream come true for a man enamored with insects. That is until you learn he works in the gift shop. Following a series of events and mysteries beyond his control or understanding, Will tries harder and harder to cling to the freedom he doesn’t have, becoming tangled in the spider’s web from which he needs to escape.

It’s bad enough that its venom-dripping chelicerae can slice through flesh like warm butter. Worse? It’s right there under the bunk. It’s a fact now. To make it through the night, the children must obey the rules: don’t get out of bed, stay out of the shadows, and don’t wake the beast. But as the threats multiply, so do the rules of survival. And with the safety of dawn still hours away, the fun is just beginning.