Weird Tales of Creepy Crawlies - A Fine Selection of Fantastical Short Stories of Mysterious Insects and Spiders (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)

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• Publisher: Cryptofiction Classics
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781473308374
• eBook ISBN: 9781473399983
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

These early works by various authors were originally published in the late 19th century and early 20th century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introduction as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Weird Tales of Creepy Crawlies' contains a collection of short stories about mysterious insects and arachnids, and includes 'The Strong Spider' by Edgar Allan Poe (1846), 'The Messenger' by Robert W. Chambers (1897), 'The Empire of the Ants' by by H. G. Wells (1905), and many more. The stories in this collection were mostly written around the turn of the century. And most of them reflect what has been a pretty consistent human reaction to insects, as evidenced throughout the literary tradition – fascination and disgust, in equal measure. Despite the Romantics' best efforts, the perception of insects as repulsive, threatening and unclean – the carriers of pestilence and plague in the bible; the exemplifiers of foulness in Shakespeare – has never quite gone away. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• The Sphinx
• The Strong Spider.
• The Queen of the Bees
• A Moth – Genus Novo
• The Purple Emperor
• The Messenger
• The Valley of the Spiders
• The Great White Moth
• The Ash-Tree
• The Green Spider
• The Empire of the Ants
• The Feather Pillow
• The Golden Fly
• Caterpillars
• An Egyptian Hornet
• The Spider
• The Eggs of the Silver Moon
• The Blue Cockroach
• The Gold-Seekers
• The Spectre Spiders
• Vampires of the Desert
• The Worm
• Biographies
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