Crypt of the Moon Spider
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A young woman, committed to an asylum, undergoes a bizarre treatment that unlocks a vast well of power in this cosmic horror novella, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher.
Veronica Brinkley has been committed to The Barrowfield Home, run by Dr. Cull, to treat her depression. The institution is built on the crypt of a giant Lunar Spider, tended to by a monastic group of worshippers called the Alabaster Scholars. Dr. Cull is using the lunar silk from the dead spider to "repair" people's brains.
As Veronica's memories are tampered with, she finds a surprising reserve of power within herself, upending everyone else's plans for her and stepping into a grand new role she had never imagined for herself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ballingrud (The Strange) offers a pulpy genre-bender that reads like Ken Kesey by way of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Among the dark and mysterious forests of the moon, ambitious doctor Cull meets a tribe of priests who revere the Moon Spiders that once ruled the lunar caves. The silk from these massive, psychic spiders can be used to replace human brain tissue. Soon Cull's Barrowfield Home for Treatment of the Melancholy is seeing patients recover from incurable conditions, the rotten parts of their brains scooped out and woven over with spiderwebs. Veronica Brinkley, troubled with depression and intrusive thoughts, wants to be able to return to her husband as a whole and happy woman, and whatever Cull needs to do to her brain to heal her, she's ready. But in the crypts below the Barrowfield Home, the priests have dark plans, and the doctor's own plans are just as sinister—and Veronica is just the person they've been waiting for. Unhesitatingly violent and wildly fantastical, Ballingrud's fever dream of a novel will reward daring readers with something they haven't seen before.
