Spider-Cursed: a supernatural horror short story

By S. E. Lee

Two cousins.

One fortune.

And one doesn't want to share...

When a distant relative leaves a massive fortune behind with the condition that the two co-heirs cohabit a haunted mansion for a limited time, it should be a win-win situation.

But will Harold hold out when his loser cousin uses a witch doctor to make sure that his worst nightmares come true?

A 7200-word supernatural horror short story. Warning: spiders and adult language.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crescere Publishing
• Release date: May 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458112590

S. E. Lee

S. E. Lee lives and writes in the USA.

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Spider-Cursed

by

S. E. Lee

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Copyright © 2011 by S. E. Lee

cover © 2011 by S. E. Lee

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When Harold has to move in with his greedy cousin to honor the terms of his great-uncle's will and to keep his own, financially entangled company from being sold off to the highest bidder, he finds that more and more, spiders are terrorizing his nights and invading his days, and he will do anything to keep them out of his space and out of his head. But will he succeed when he makes a mistake that catastrophically misfires on him, a mysterious witch doctor with motives of her own, and his cousin's increasingly menacing behavior?

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He ran until his heart felt like it was going to explode and turned to face the shadowed man who was trying to kill him when a giant, spine-bristled spider the size of a king crab clamped onto his