The Sign of the Spider (1896)

by Bertram Mitford

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The Sign of the Spider is a British adventure novel, first published in 1896. Bertram Mitford creates an anti-hero as protagonist and weaving throughout the story a deliberate look at racial attitudes and cultural differences within colonial- Africa. The arachnid-beast in the climax of the story is am amazing character. The first part of the book is a romance while the latter part is a fun action/adventure story.… (more)

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The Sign of the Spider is a British adventure novel, first published in 1896. Bertram Mitford creates an anti-hero as protagonist and weaving throughout the story a deliberate look at racial attitudes and cultural differences within colonial- Africa. The arachnid-beast in the climax of the story is am amazing character. The first part of the book is a romance while the latter part is a fun action/adventure story.

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Laurence Stanninghame walks out of his unhappy marriage in England to pursue adventure in Johannesburg. Things seem to be looking up for Stanninghame, though: on the cruise to South Africa he meets the beautiful Lilith Ormskirk, and when he arrives in Johannesburg he quickly makes his fortune.

But things just as quickly take a turn for the worse when Stanninghame's luck deserts him and he loses everything. Left with seemingly no choice but to put a gun to his head, Stanninghame sets out with a slave trader, Hazon, into the country of the mysterious tribe of the Ba-gcatya, the People of the Spider. Stanninghame is a hardened adventurer, undaunted by danger or death. But even he is unprepared for the horror he encounters when he is marked out as a sacrifice to the monstrous spider-god of the Ba-gcatya!

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