The Spider

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Duración: 0 h 47 m
Idioma: Inglés
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Categoría: Terror y Suspenso

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*Contains themes of obsession and self-destruction*

Title: The Spider

Series Name: Timeless Terrors

Series Entry: 148

Author: Hanns Heinz Ewers

Narrator: Jonathan Dunne

Original Publication: 1908

Public Domain: Yes

Description:

The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers is a chilling psychological horror tale that slowly tightens into obsession, paranoia, and doom.

In a gloomy Parisian boarding house overshadowed by a series of unexplained suicides, a young medical student volunteers to investigate the mystery. The deaths all occurred in the same room, under eerily similar circumstances, and no rational explanation has ever been found. Determined to uncover the truth, the student takes up residence there and begins carefully documenting his experiences.

With mounting dread, Ewers transforms an apparently simple mystery into something hypnotic and nightmarish. Rather than relying on overt violence, The Spider builds terror through psychological disintegration, fatal attraction, and the creeping sense of an unseen malign influence at work. The result is one of the most disturbing and unforgettable works of early twentieth-century weird fiction — a story where isolation itself becomes a trap, and a single glance through a window may lead inexorably toward destruction.

Fecha de lanzamiento

Audiolibro: 17 de mayo de 2026

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