Crypt of the Moon Spider
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3.7 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.
Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe.
It’s now 1923 and Veronica Brinkley is touching down on the moon for her intake at the Barrowfield Home for Treatment of the Melancholy. A renowned facility, Dr. Barrington Cull’s invasive and highly successful treatments have been lauded by many. And they’re so simple! All it takes is a little spider silk in the amygdala, maybe a strand or two in the prefrontal cortex, and perhaps an inch in the hippocampus for near evisceration of those troublesome thoughts and ideas.
But patients aren’t the only ones with trouble on their minds, and although the spider’s been dead for years, its denizens are not. Someone or something is up to no good, and Veronica just might be the cause.
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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.
