Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arachnophobia | 2018 | Kristen Arnett | Buy |
Arachnophobia (2018) is a standalone short work by Kristen Arnett that appeared between her story collection Felt in the Jaw and her debut novel Mostly Dead Things. The piece demonstrates Arnett’s ability to work in compressed forms, using vivid imagery and an unsettling tone to explore anxiety and revulsion.
The work fits within Arnett’s broader interest in the things people find disturbing about their own lives and environments. Like her novels, it uses the physical world, in this case spiders, as a way into emotional and psychological territory.