Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 brings you the week’s posts: the Witch of Leadville, eye-lash history, the ghost of a living woman, a discontented and destructive daemon, as well as creepy crawlies in hair and jungle.
The March of the Tarantulas: Giant, Poisonous, Aggressive, and Scary Spiders An undulating carpet of giant tarantulas, migrating en masse. The deadly perils of swallowing spiders. Giant spiders who capture and eat mice and birds. Spiders as big as a hat.
A story of life imitating art in an excerpt from Julian Duguid’s Green Hell, about a meeting with a giant spider. Shades of “The Ash Tree” by M.R. James….
