Sinisterly beckoning, the long bony finger signaled Manhattan to its mass death — slaying hundreds of helpless victims who dared sink into a sleep from which there could be no awakening this side of hell! While the Underworld’s lawless hordes looted, only Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, dared fight, die and fight again for a fear-crazed people against a murder-Morpheus whose human quarry drowsed into death — and whose grim weapon was a Slaying Sandman sworn to turn New York into a Slumberland of Slaughter!

When Thousands Slept in Hell is torn from the pages of the May, 1938 issue of The Spider magazine.