Spyder Threads, Craig Laurance Gidney
Spyder Threads, Craig Laurance Gidney
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Spyder Threads
A Short Horror Story

Author: Craig Laurance Gidney

Narrator: Greer Morrison

Unabridged: 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

Dazzling drag couture and cosmic terror weave together to reveal a tale of horrifying design.

"Spyder Threads" by Craig Laurance Gidney is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Come Join Us by the Fire S2: Originals is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-first horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. "Season 2: Originals" features nine all-new stories from authors Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Brian Evenson, Camilla Grudova, Shaun Hamill, Gabino Iglesias, Daniel M. Lavery, and Sunny Moraine.

About Craig Laurance Gidney

Craig Laurance Gidney writes both contemporary and genre fiction. He is the author of the collections Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories and Skin Deep Magic; the young audlt novel Bereft; and A Spectral Hue. He is a lifelong Washington DC resident.


Reviews

An angle into fashion and beauty and their crossroads for those who don't fit nicely into any of the accepted box combinations, and just how far someone might be willing to go to have just one moment on the catwalk where they are seen as beautiful by everyone watching.......more

A tantalizing story that melds the history of the Black, Queer ballroom scene in DC, and African mythology, by way of dark fantasy. The language by Gidney is supple and gorgeous, alive to the senses evoked from a hunger to be seen, loved, and desired. As the audio reader, Morrison captures the bitte......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Sad at times and beautiful at others. We all need to feel like we are perfect. That can mean feeling weird, feeling gorgeous or just simply fitting in. This short story features models who are so unique that most humans would not want to be like them. This story is more about the people who NEED to......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

This story hits home quite a bit - aside form the fashion. Everyone wants to belong. When you find where you belong, you'll do anything to stay there. This story has you follow along as the main character finds where they belong and how they get to stay there.......more