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Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...
Scott Taylor of Black Gate in 2015 rated the Queen of Spiders series as #1 in "The Top 10 Campaign Adventure Module Series of All Time, saying "I've played this series half a dozen times in my life, and each time it reinvents itself, becomes fresh and alive, and leaves me feeling like I've taken on the hosts of shadow and won a great victory ...
Wataru Kurozuma is an anime-only character introduced in the first season of A Certain Scientific Railgun anime series as the founder of a Skill-Out faction called "Big Spider". He is well-known for his large spider tattoo on his back's right side hidden by his black leather jacket, and always seen carrying and drinking Musashino Milk.
The giant spider-like figure of the tsuchigumo as a oni-like yōkai first appeared in medieval literary works. The most representative work among these tales is The Tale of the Heike, compiled in the Kamakura period (1185–1333) in the first half of the 13th century, in which it appears under the name yamagumo (山蜘蛛, "mountain spider").
The War of the Spider Queen series is written by six authors with two editors, Philip Athans and R. A. Salvatore. [13] Authors like Richard Lee Byers and Athans had already adventured into the world of Forgotten Realms with their writing [ 14 ] [ 15 ] while for others like Lisa Smedman and Thomas M. Reid, War of the Spider Queen was their first ...
The Queen and the Jackal send him to kill Anti-Venom because he is curing people who have gained spider-powers, but his superiors order him to take him to Reed Richards to help develop a cure. Flash and the Venom symbiote fight each other because Flash wants to bring Anti-Venom to Richards and the symbiote wants to kill Anti-Venom for ...
Legend has it that he wrote one last message before being hospitalized prior to his death, says Disney historian Jim Korkis. Titled “TV Projects In Production: Ready for Production or Possible ...
Menzoberranzan, the "City of Spiders", is a fictional city-state in the world of the Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The city is located in the Upper Northdark, about two miles below the Surbrin Vale, between the Moonwood and the Frost Hills (north of the Evermoors and under the River Surbin [1]).