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The Black Spider is a novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842. Set in an idyllic frame story , old legends are worked into a Christian-humanist allegory about ideas of good and evil .
The book was a great success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned eighteenth-century villagers. [1] Henceforth Bitzius was a prolific writer, and in the last 18 years of his life became one of the important novelists not only of Switzerland but of the German language in general.
Wole Talabi reviewed the book in Brittle Paper lamenting that it did not include more diverse tribal mythology of Nigeria, but overall commending the collection for making it clear that writers in the speculative fiction genre include Nigerians, Africans, and women—not just white men.
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The Book of Fritz Leiber (1974). Collection of 10 stories and 9 articles. The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975). Collection of 4 stories, 1 play, and 6 articles. The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (1976). Collection of 22 stories, no overlap with 'Best of' or the two 'Books of'. Bazaar of the Bizarre (1978) Heroes and Horrors (1978). Collection of 9 ...
The Black Spider by Franz Karl Basler-Kopp. The opera exploits the collision of two plots and switches back and forth between a Polish legend of the Middle Ages, adapted from Die Schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf, and a contemporary newspaper cutting about a curse on the opening of the Tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków.
Black Spider is a super-villain and anti-hero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. While several versions of the character exist, the original version is a lesser-known adversary of Batman and notably served as a member of the Suicide Squad .
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