Web
by:
John Wyndham (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780718117979 (0718117972)
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Pages no: 187
Edition language: English
“Hundreds of thousands of them.” Kingsley Amis in his ‘New Maps Of Hell’ praises John Wyndham’s ‘coherence and concision’ and ‘Web’ is a good example of such qualities; Wyndham does here for Spider Island what he did for walking killer plants. Rejected by his publishers and only surfacing posthumous...
Never used to have a problem with spiders, in fact I am quite fond of the clever little buggers. But, from here on in, thanks solely to Mr Wyndham, I will be eyeing them with extreme caution.