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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThey say we humans are born with two innate fears \u2013 falling and loud noises. All the rest are learned. I would offer there are three base fears. Add spiders to that list because I can\u2019t recall when I first feared those eight-legged monsters. As long as I can remember that fear has been foremost in my mind. I remember riding in my grandfather\u2019s red van with black spiderweb painted on the side and red shaggy carpet on the inside when a spider rappelled down from the ceiling on its string of web. I pointed it out to my grandpa and much to my horror he reached out, grabbed it, and stuffed it into my left-hand pocket of my pants. I screamed and tore those pants off. Looking back on that hazy childhood memory now, he probably didn\u2019t really do that. That spider in my pocket was probably as real as the killer dog in his basement, the bear that chased us out of the woods that lined his country property, and the snipe we chased down in his back yard. But the fear was real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Building on that common fear and stepping outside her collection of short stories<\/a>, Splatterpunk Award Winner Bridget Nelson<\/a> released her first Novella, Red Inside. The story follows a group of patients\/nurses\/doctors through what will end up being their last day on earth. Not everyone dies in the end, or do they? You\u2019ll have to read it for yourself. She pulls from her previous career in the medical field and experience as an exotic pet owner to weave a web of horror that is sure to unsettle you. A fast-paced story for sure but will leave you wishing it took just a little bit longer to get there. I give it 8 out of 8 spider legs. Signed copies are available from her website and all the other array of formats on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They say we humans are born with two innate fears \u2013 falling and loud noises. All the rest are learned. I would offer there are three base fears. Add spiders to that list because I can\u2019t recall when I first feared those eight-legged monsters. As long as I can remember that fear has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[312,478,479,161],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-bridget-nelson","tag-red-inside","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_2170.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}