The Freaky Morbid Spider

With Halloween around the corner I couldn’t resist! Please don’t let this story get under your skin. This is the lighthearted, macabre story of our little friend, the Brown Recluse spider.

I could feel it crawling on me. It’s tiny legs tickling with every shift in it’s movement. I began crying, “Please get it off me!”

The Brown Recluse spider has long been the enemy of my family. My father taught me to check beneath the sheets before I slithered under them. I check between the quilt and sheet also. I often slept in a thick wool sweater, tucked into a pair of snakebite-proof hunting denims.

I checked the clothes thoroughly for spiders before wearing them. Some think it’s all in my head but I believe everyone on my mothers side has a Brown Recluse somewhere on them. It hides in your hair and crawls over your body while you sleep.

A twisted chill of sickening grotesqueness crawled across my skin and twitching spasms undulated through my spine - tickling chills of tiny legs. I jerked my arms to shake loose any spiders who may have poor footing. My mother told me they are wherever you can’t see them. Turn your eyes away for just a second and there it is.

My mother received a horrible bite Christmas morning in 1999. The bite was just above her kneecap. The highly toxic venom kills all the surrounding flesh, leaving a vile, black sore. No scab ever forms and pus drizzles from the horrid, rotting flesh. Gruesome necrotic tissue outlined the blackened ulceration, encrusting her entire thigh.

The stomach wrenching, fetid stench egressing from the dead flesh made me gag upon inhaling it’s fragrance. My mother told me long ago, “Wherever on your body or head you most fear being bitten is where you will receive it.”

I most feared being bitten on the face. Everyday, Mom took ten pictures of me as each could be the last of my pristine image.

I didn’t want ghastly sores on my face. Please get it off me! Tears streamed from my lachrymal ducts as I cried ferociously. Please…get it off me. I could feel one on the back of my neck, it felt like a Black Widow but I knew it was a Recluse. I could feel the weight of it’s thick, juice filled body.

I looked in the mirror, I was covered in hundreds…millions of rigid spider legs, dancing across the horizons of my flesh…PLEASE GET THEM OFF ME!

The brown recluse awakened, realizing this entire ordeal was just a pleasant dream. “What a beautiful, crisp morning” he thought, “What a lovely day for sweet, tender flesh.”

I wrote this ghastly little tale for Christy’s Freaky Friday’s project (from Christy’s Coffee Break). Here are some important facts we should all know about this extremely poisonous spider:

To identify the Brown Recluse you 1st look at it’s head. Look closely and you’ll see the shape of a violin at it’s base.

Outside, they can be found in firewood piles, leaves, or under piles of rocks. Indoors you may find them in dark closets, shoes, cluttered basements or attics. The Brown recluse is also known as “fiddleback” spider. They may hide under bedding or in clothes, so be sure to check everything! Never use a bedskirt as it gives them an easy climb.

The picture is from: www.desertusa.com

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October 6, 2007 · Filed Under horror, short-story

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46 Responses to “The Freaky Morbid Spider”

  1. WaterLearner on October 6th, 2007 7:32 am

    This is just a tale right? Not real right? Bobby, you said before that you are writing a book. Is it a horror theme? You seem quite gifted in that area as well. :wink:

  2. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 7:33 am

    @WaterLearner: It’s just a very lighthearted Halloween story. My dad used to tell me a similar story before bed when I was just a child. Thanks Karen! :smile:

  3. Dawn on October 6th, 2007 8:31 am

    Ewwwwww Bobby! :shock: I nearly spit coffee all over my monitor when I saw that horrible picture. I am terrified of spiders. I hate them with a passion and we have those brown recluse spiders in my state. They are evillllllll! Evil I say!

    Man that story made me want to grab a baseball bat and a keg of raid! :shock:

  4. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 8:32 am

    @Dawn: This is pretty much VERY lighthearted compared to my real horror stories. I can’t publish them on this blog as nobody would come back! I am glad you found it chilling! :smile:

  5. Janice on October 6th, 2007 8:39 am

    I have a fear to all sorts of insects. That spidey just freak me out. Its rare in my country to see such a huge spidey back at our homes. However, I’ve seen a couple of times over at my parent’s house.

    Janice Ng

  6. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 9:01 am

    @Janice: The brown recluse is actually a very small spider. Where I live, you have to check for them because they’re hard to see. :smile: Did you like my story? :smile:

  7. Dawn on October 6th, 2007 9:14 am

    By the way, Bobby did you ever see the clock spider picture that circulated around the web a few years back? I would have sold my house before I’d consider battling that thing. It was big enough to go into my closet and try on my shoes! :shock:

  8. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 9:15 am

    @Dawn: No, I haven’t seen that one. Aside from widows and recluses, I’ll let any other spider crawl om me…ewww, just kidding…he he! :smile:

  9. WaterLearner on October 6th, 2007 9:49 am

    Bobby,

    Your story plus that detailed picture … I will be going to bed soon. But guess what, I just tossed my pillows and blanket a little just now before I sat down before my notebook again –> In case I had those crawlies under my bedsheet also!! :shock:

  10. mr fong on October 6th, 2007 9:59 am

    Freaky :( I have a weakness for them, and it does not mean I love them or have any fetish for them, esp cockroaches! Haha, I got 1 thrown at me On April Fool ;p

    Thanks for your comment over at mine, appreciate it!
    So glad to finally come your blog, I think i’m hooked.. :( Eatyourmaths!

  11. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 10:00 am

    @Mr fong, someone threw a roach on you? How horrifying! Was it a fake or real roach? :smile:

  12. Rolando on October 6th, 2007 10:05 am

    ewww i hate spiders. I got goose bumps reading your story. :neutral:

  13. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 10:06 am

    @Rolando: Spiders don’t gross me out like roaches. I got chills just writing it!!! :smile: Thanks Rolando! :smile:

  14. Ingrid on October 6th, 2007 10:28 am

    Ever since I moved to Texas, I live in terror of brown recluse spiders (causing to stomp on every single spider I see around the house), as well as copperhead snakes (I saw one of these once near a dumpster at an apartment complx).

    That photo gave me the heebie jeebies.

  15. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 11:10 am

    @Ingrid: They say, even if you are bitten, you will probably never see one. That’s the scariest part!!!! :smile: I am only scared of poisonous snakes. Copperheads have a nasty bite! :smile:

  16. paisley on October 6th, 2007 4:34 pm

    i wait and wait for some or your awesome creative writing… and i get SPIDERS!!!!!!! aaaaggggghhhh!!!!

  17. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 4:35 pm

    @Paisley: Look…do I have one on me? Get it off me!!!! He he! I thought you loved poisonous spiders! I thought everyone liked them! Thanks Paisley :smile:

  18. JS on October 6th, 2007 4:46 pm

    Great writing, I started getting goosebumps after reading this :P

  19. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 4:47 pm

    JS: Thanks! Enjoy the goosebumps!

  20. Erina Hart on October 6th, 2007 4:59 pm

    Ahhh! We have these spiders. I was warned as a little girl to never–ever–play with spiders because one might be the Brown Recluse. My father always told me to run to him if I ever found anything with eight legs.

    I liked the story! I was nervous. In Rob’s apartment, I often find big, creepy spiders. I found one a few weeks ago that was bigger than a gold dollar. Now I’m nervous that there is a spider on the couch! Maybe there is one clinging to the ceiling, waiting to drop into my hair!

    I want a bath! I need a shower! I need some bug spray!

    (Where did you find that awesome photo? Really creepy!)

  21. Revellian on October 6th, 2007 5:00 pm

    @Erina Hart: The Brown Recluse is a rarely seen or felt spider. I used to have horrific nightmares as a child but now I enjoy nightmares and I know they are dreams while having them. I am sitting here typing with one hand, holding a can of Raid in the other! Thanks Erina! :smile: The photo credit is at the bottom of my post. :smile:

  22. Sunday Samplings #12 « The Kat House on October 6th, 2007 10:02 pm

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  23. mr fong on October 6th, 2007 11:54 pm

    Hi bobby: Of course a fake one, I will have died if it were real ;p

    my little student, so smart to know my taste for roaches,haha ;p

  24. Revellian on October 7th, 2007 1:04 am

    @Mr fong: That’s a relief! I like chocolate covered, giant grasshoppers! Just kidding…ewwww! :smile:

  25. NAFA on October 7th, 2007 11:16 am

    Oh my…the creepy crawly sure scares me…

    Thank goodness this spider has yet to be discovered back where I live. And i hope nobody discovers it! This is probably the worst of spiders that i have seen.

  26. Revellian on October 7th, 2007 5:29 pm

    NAFA: The Brown Recluse is a tiny spider and is usually found in the dry regions of the Western United States. I have seen them where I live and the weather here is sub tropic. This spider makes the black widow look like a punk! :smile:

  27. Eric "Speedcat" on October 7th, 2007 9:59 pm

    What’s a “bed skirt”? :shock: Mine wears trousers.

  28. Revellian on October 7th, 2007 10:13 pm

    Eric ?Speedcat?: I always wear a bright pink bedskirt with yellow sunflowers on them before sliding in bed with a spider. They really turn me on…he he ha ha muah ha ha ha he he:)

  29. Genie Princess on October 8th, 2007 11:05 am

    Hi Bobby, here to give u some comment luv! How was ur weekend? I’m gonna be really busy this week since Raya is just a few days away. Loads of shopping to do and everywhere will be packed with ppl for sure. Not lookin forward to that but lookin forward to da shoppin bit! ;)

  30. Revellian on October 8th, 2007 11:21 am

    @Genie Princess: Ha ha ha! I know my spider post probably wasn’t your favourite. Thanks for the comment love Genie Princess!!!!! I had some e-mails asking me to remove the horrible picture!

    What is Raya? I am not familiar with it’s meaning :smile:

  31. Genie Princess on October 8th, 2007 11:50 am

    Sorry, Raya as in my Mariuca Raya mug. It’s the New Year for Muslims, which we’ll be celebrating this weekend and it also marks the end of our fasting month! ;)

  32. Revellian on October 8th, 2007 11:55 am

    @Genie Princess: Thanks!!! I now understand! I love learning new things. I bet you are hungry for a big plate of buffalo wings…he he! I know I am! :smile:

  33. Aaron Cook on October 9th, 2007 7:38 pm

    Hi Bobby. I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about here! I got bit on my right knee by one of those bad boys (the brown recluse) in ‘94 when I was home from college for the summer and working outside managing the grounds of a resort.

    OMG, the pain! :mad: I can’t even describe it. It was so excruciating in fact that if you blew on the hair on my leg it hurt like mad. Just a breeze on the hair was enough to make me want to scream, that’s how sensitive the skin by the bite was. And my leg was so swollen if wasn’t even funny. I even ended up getting blood poisoning from it. Thanks goodness for antibiotics or else I probably would’ve died of infection. I still have a small scar where the venom ate the skin away like acid. Bad stuff, I tell ya. Bad stuff.

  34. Revellian on October 9th, 2007 7:57 pm

    Ouch! You should see my mom’s leg now! Just kidding!!!!! She read this post and I proved my insanity to her once again. I know she loved it!!!

    I’d much rather get bitten by a rattle snake, and I’m not kidding. Could you imagine a bad bite on the face? You might not have a face! There’s only one worse place to be bitten, that’s right…you guessed it LOL! :lol:

  35. Aaron Cook on October 9th, 2007 8:28 pm

    I’ve heard from many that the black widow is one of the most painful afterwards…even more so than snake bites. It’s been described as having your whole entire body crushed in a vice. I think I’ll pass. Thankfully, I’ve never been bitten by one of those, though I do see them quite often here in Florida.

    Another bad one to get bitten by is the Asian giant hornet (over two inches long!). Its venom eats away human flesh with ease. About 70 people die from it each year in Japan. Just check out this bad boy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_hornet

    Talk about looking totally bad-ass! :twisted:
    Here’s a killer video on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4wRIERp6Vs

    Shine on,
    Aaron

  36. Revellian on October 9th, 2007 8:58 pm

    I missed this comment! Sorry Karen :oops: Make sure you check all your clothes too! LOL I have sheets with a spider print. Millions of spiders everywhere! That way if a real one is near, I won’t think it’s real…of course there I go trying to be funny again! :lol:

  37. Revellian on October 9th, 2007 9:03 pm

    Thanks Aaron! I will go watch it. I love watching shows about insects, snakes and just about any wildlife. I sure don’t want a 2″ hornet landing on me. I wouldn’t like that at all! I was going to show pictures of hideously grotesque recluse bites but my female readers would never forgive me!!!!! LOL :lol:

  38. Christy on October 10th, 2007 7:30 am

    Hi Bobby,

    Thanks for writing another Freaky Friday, I’ll add it this week:)

    I have that itchy creepy feeling right now….like spiders are crawling all over me…which means you did a good job in writing the story, lol. Ewww….

    Big Hugs, Christy

    Christy’s last blog post..This Week’s Blogging Tip - Keeping It Simple

  39. Sara on October 11th, 2007 8:08 pm

    Bobby,

    Great job bringing the spider to life. I read it about fifteen minutes ago, but had to come back and comment because I realized I still had the heebies!

    Sara

    Sara’s last blog post..Another Nintendo Wii Contest

  40. Revellian on October 11th, 2007 8:22 pm

    Ha ha ha…It’s just a fun little story for a child’s bedtime story! Thanks Christy! :mrgreen:

  41. Revellian on October 11th, 2007 8:26 pm

    Thanks Sara! It’s my Halloween contribution! I hope it didn’t gross you out too much! :smile:

  42. Mitchell Allen on March 13th, 2008 3:02 pm

    Stephen King has nothing on you, my friend.
    Except….

    THAT BIG HAIRY BROWN SPIDER GOING DOWN YOUR SHIRT COLLAR….

    I just learned today that you are a horror writer, (that poem you wrote a couple of days ago after the nice, sunny poem..yeah, that one!) .

    So I had a look around…

    Creepy place, indeed! :)
    Cheers,

    Mitch

    Mitchell Allen’s last blog post..Staccato Snap - Week 001

  43. Jean Chia on June 26th, 2008 11:19 pm

    eww… i had a thingy wt spiders, i can’t stand their tiny fast feet crawling on my skin.. :shock:
    Jean Chias last blog post..Travel To 7 Continents

  44. Revellian on June 26th, 2008 11:58 pm

    Thanks Mitch! Sorry it took a year to reply, but I’ve been healing up from an excruciating spider bite :mrgreen:

  45. Revellian on June 27th, 2008 12:00 am

    I don’t like them crawling on me either Jean! Thanks for reading my horror story :twisted:

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