Monsters! Mods! Madness! Murder! During the 1940s, dapper British thespian Burton Lazlow was one of the top monster movie stars in Hollywood, appearing as the dreaded "Tarantula" in a string of successful pictures. But that was twenty years ago. Now it's the '60s, and the best he can do is get humiliating work in fast food commercials and silly American sitcoms, forever forced to don the phony fangs and monster make-up that made him famous. His wife having left him, his career in the loo, and himself an alcoholic with a tendency to hallucinate, Lazlow commits an act that forces him to flee Hollywood for his homeland where the Swinging London era is just dawning. Curse of the Tarantula is an acid-spiked black comedy from Independent Book Publisher Award nominee Mike Segretto.