Mystery in Spiderville Author:John Hartley Williams The main character -- the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt -- has six toes, sleeps in a grave, and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons. Sucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a narrator -- sometimes Spider's adversary, sometimes his victim -- who lies upon a bed brooding on the absence of a nameless... more », brown-haired woman. He, too, is protean: full of passionate longings and homicidal tendencies.
A surrealist film-noir that blends the forensic with the erotic, the seedy penny-dreadful and the lyric prose-poem, Mystery in Spiderville is one of the strangest, strongest and most arresting fictional debuts in years.« less