The House Spider and Other Strange Visitors

by Kurt Newton

Epiphanies and revelations.... Each of the ten stories contained in this strangely wondrous collection explore the oftentimes mysterious, sometimes miraculous, nature of belief. From cobwebbed basements to desert wastelands, these stories offer up a host of dark landscapes where outside forces intrude upon our daily lives and manifest opportunities for change--both physical and spiritual.

110 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2002

About the author

Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 400 poems and 250 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Germany and Poland. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been seven times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.

Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.

He lives in the northeast corner of Connecticut.