Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

Nathan Ballingrud

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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 trouble lurks in many a mind at this facility 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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  • Angmara
    Mar 09, 2025
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    new york’s hottest club is barrowfield. it’s got everything: psychological terror, feminine rage, and refreshingly skin crawling horror. seriously i’m going to have itchy skin for a week. i mean the cover alone is HAUNTING (it’s all in the eyes). this was so reminiscent of “a cure for wellness” (which i ate up). the writing was fantastic, disturbingly detached which was so appropriate. this was so close to five stars but the end got a little too fever dream for me. but the rest was an absolute slam dunk. "He had his professional face on, the one he showed patients whose legs he was about to hack off. It was a face that lied. 'Of course you can be saved,' he said." haunting

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