Normal for the Spider
About this audiobook
From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hank Schwaeble, Normal for the Spider is a spine-tingling thriller that will keep readers hooked to the very last page.
Sienna Shaw is an apex predator. She kills without remorse when it suits her purposes, steals from those she judges undeserving of what they have, lives by her own set of rules. Just don’t call her a serial killer. She knows what she is and what she always will be—a survivor whose governing creed is simple: Trust No One.
Or so Sienna believes, until the day she encounters a shadowy group that calls itself the Book Club. A small, well-funded, highly secret society united by their shared taste for the macabre and a desire to instill fear among entrepreneurs, industrialists, politicians—any who imagine themselves in charge of civilization—to remind them who is really at the top of the food chain. Sienna soon finds herself a reluctant guest on a remote and supposedly haunted island where the Book Club plans to unleash hell upon its next target and usher in a new chapter of its horror-inspired mission.
But not even Sienna is prepared for the tangled web of betrayal and chaos that awaits, or the very real monsters that will be let loose—including ones that may have been present all along.
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About the author
Hank Schwaeble is the two-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Damnable (Berkley/Jove), Diabolical (Berkley/Jove), and The Angel of the Abyss (rereleased by Esker & Riddle in 2021). He is also the author of the horror-noir collections American Nocturne, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, and Moonless Nocturne, which has been optioned by the producer of The Equalizer movies. His stories have appeared in publications such as Weird Tales Magazine and Dark Discoveries Magazine as well as anthologies such as X-Files: The Truth Is Out There, V-Wars: Night Terrors, and numerous other outlets. A former Air Force officer and Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Hank is a graduate of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt Law School and is a practicing attorney. He is also a licensed pilot. He resides in Texas with his wife, fellow writer Rhodi Hawk.
Erin deWard is an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator and a classically trained stage actor. She is a longtime company member of The Strange Bedfellows, a Rockland County, New York-based Shakespeare company, and can be found directing, assisting another director, or on the lighting board for The Children's Shakespeare Theatre in Rockland County, New York. Erin has been working in the field of Audio Description (media accessibility for people who are blind) as a writer, voice talent, advocate, and trainer for over a decade. She is a proud and grateful member of SAG/AFTRA.
