About the book: year / "A more terrible incident cannot be imagined. Even now, when I remember the events many years later, my hair stands on end. And always a tarantula appears in my mind's eye. A terrible-looking earth spider, a real monster that is afraid of light and spends most of its life in a deep hole. Only at night does it come to the surface and prowl in search of prey, silently and swiftly…»