Part of the ‘Amazon Original’ Dark Corners collection of spooky short stories, Edgar Cantero’s superbly named There’s a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed is a gleefully funny and beautifully observed tale of night-time terror at a children’s sleepover. Young bookworm Noah finds his evening derailed when his friend Ian calmly announces (from the top bunk) that there’s a giant trapdoor spider currently in residence beneath Noah’s bed (it dug a hole, so that it can fit). Thus begins a chain of bizarre events as Noah, Ian, Sam and Rina desperately try to keep clear of the giant spider, the antimatter shadows and various other hazards in the darkness of Noah’s bedroom.
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