Crypt of the Moon Spider

A wonderfully Gothic re-imagining of the moon in an alternative 1923.

There is so much of the science fiction of Verne and Wells in this novella, but then tempered by a very dark creeping horror with a Lovecraftian flavour, cosmic and visceral.

Set on the moon among the forest that Galileo thought was a sea is a sanitarium called The Barrowfield Home, a place treating melancholy with experimental procedures involving spider silk from a long dead Moon Spider.

A cracking tale that had me gripped from start to finish, with a slow build setting the place within a universe that suddenly exploded into a startling conclusion there wasn’t a foot placed wrong.

The whole story was tight and paced so well, I especially liked the inclusion of some back story for Grub which really added flavour to the conclusion.

Looking forward to the next episode in the Lunar Gothic Trilogy!

I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.