Came a spider

Good to read a proper pulpy “nature attacks” book from the 70s, especially one that is written so well (hard to believe that can be said about this genre but it is). What I especially liked was an American writers nod to James Herbert's The Rats, as if it was part of the same world inhabited by his killer spiders: “Bates paused for a moment, selected a news clipping from the pile in front of him.”Here's an item from a newspaper in England. About two years ago the poorer section of London was horribly infested with rats, definitely a threat to human life on account of spreading infection and rat bites. There was even reports of packs of these rats literally tearing small children to pieces. “
Brilliant.