"A fairly successful anthology of short stories featuring THE MASTER OF MEN. When I ordered this volume, I had my doubts that THE SPIDER could be made to work at short-story length, but most of the authors here are up to the challenge. Basically, you start with the standard sort of menace that snuffs out the lives of thousands of citizens of New York City in as gruesome a way as the author can come up with, and then let it be obvious to The Spider as to who the guilty mastermind is, and immediately go to a confrontation between mastermind and Spider. The various menaces fall back on flesh-eating zombies a bit too often for my taste, but generally things fall within the broad frameworks established by the great Norvell Page. One story has Richard Wentworth and his girlfriend Nita Van Sloan routinely sleeping together, a highly unlikely circumstance since both Wentworth and Van Sloan were pillars of society with a sizeable staff of servants... their households were rigidly separated. And Wentworth sleeping with Van Sloan would subject her to even more physical danger than she normally experiences in the tales. I also didn't like various inexplicable supernatural elements some authors worked into the adventures. But there are bound to be clunkers in such a generous collection. On the whole, I recommend it to fans of The Master of Men."
I'm glad you enjoyed it, though I suspect my story was the one that didn't sit well as it has a supernatural element and Nita tells Richard to "come back to bed" at the end of the story.
The Spider: Extreme Prejudice is available in paperback and ebook HERE.
Published by Moonstone Books.
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Thanks again.
Bobby
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THE SPIDER: EXTREME PREJUDICE
A pulp anthology.
2014 PULP FACTORY AWARD NOMINEE:
BEST SHORT STORY: "FEAR THE DARK" BY BOBBY NASH
2014 NEW PULP AWARD NOMINEE: BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION
2014 NEW PULP AWARD NOMINEE:
BEST SHORT STORY: "FEAR THE DARK" BY BOBBY NASH
New short stories of searing white-hot prose starring pulpdom's most violent and ruthless crime fighter ever: THE SPIDER! More just than the law, more dangerous than the Underworld...hated, feared and wanted by both! One cloaked, fanged, borderline crazy denizen of the dark force-feeding hard justice with a pair of 45's! Guest stars: The Black bat, The Green Ghost, and Operator 5!
The Spider: Extreme Prejudice features stories by Will Murray, Mel Odom, C.J. Henderson, James Chambers, Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, Howard Hopkins, Eric Fein, Gary Phillips, Don Roff, Matthew Baugh, I.A. Watson, and Rik Hoskin.
About “Fear The Dark”:
Marianne Nelson is afraid of the dark. Every time she closes her eyes she sees monstrous visions of herself and a strange woman being chased by a menacing creature with disturbing features and fangs. She chalks it all up to bad dreams until she meets the woman from her vision, Nita Van Sloan and her friend, Richard Wentworth. How does The Spider figure in to her visions?
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