The thrill of a sleepover becomes sheer terror as kids voice their greatest fears into existence in this cheeky, vividly cinematic tale by New York Times bestselling author Edgar Cantero. Lights out.
It's bad enough that its venom-dripping chelicerae can slice through flesh like warm butter. Worse? It's right there under the bunk. It's a fact now. To make it through the night, the children must obey the rules: don't get out of bed, stay out of the shadows, and don't wake the beast. But as the threats multiply, so do the rules of survival. And with the safety of dawn still hours away, the fun is just beginning.
Edgar Cantero's There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider under Your Bed is part of Dark Corners, a collection of seven heart-stopping short stories by bestselling authors who give you so many new reasons to be afraid. Each story can be read in a single sitting. Or, if you have the nerve, you can listen all by yourself in the dark.
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[The phone buzzed somewhere inside the bundle of Ian's clothes across the room]***
(Amazon Original Stories, 27 September 2018, 24 pages, ebook, bought from Amazon)
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This is my first time reading the author. I thought There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider under Your Bed was an okay-story but nothing particularly fantastic. It wasn't clear whether the spider was purely an invention by one of the kids or was a real monster of some kind. The story was too vague for my liking and I wasn't all that impressed. It wasn't terrible. It was a lot of fun but it was just meh, I've read a lot worse and far better. There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider under Your Bed fell somewhere in the middle. It disappointed me.
