Custard Cream — Robert Shearman

What to do when you wake up in the night and find that a spider half the size of the bedroom ceiling is hanging down above you. From Remember Why You Fear Me, this story is one of a set of deliciously frightening and darkly satirical tales by Robert Shearman, winner of the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize.

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