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The Spider #112 Audiobook
The Howling Death
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
When that first whine rose in the throat of a fellow worker and turned into a screaming, tearing dog-like howl, Nita van Sloan, laboring in a war factory, quickly summoned the Spider. . . . And the Spider found a city mad with terror, its population fighting each other to escape the death that turned humans into howling maniacs. . . . A grim, stark story with exciting, breath-taking action on every page — a story you will remember with startling clarity every time you hear a dog howl in the night . . . not a story for a faint-hearted reader!
Once, during a respite in a typical blood-and-screaming-bullets carnage of urban combat, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick ticked off a long list of suspects. Wentworth blurted out this self-revealing truth. “I’m suspicious of everyone,” he admitted, “even of myself sometimes.” And well he should be. For Richard Wentworth was an undiagnosed manic-depressive—if not paranoid schizophrenic—subject to violent mood swings, climbing to unutterable heights of exultation in one scene, then crashing into the blackest depths of despair the next. When the Spider-madness came over him, he might pick up his treasured Stradivarius violin and launch into a night-long serenade to soul-searching. Or, he might putty up his face, don black hat and cape, go out Spidering.…
Nick Santa Maria again takes on the dual role of Richard Wentworth, aka the Spider, Master of Men, for this powerful story. The Howling Death originally published in The Spider magazine, January, 1943.
Chapter 1: Lambs for Slaughter
Chapter 2: Satan’s Chorus
Chapter 3: Fools Rush in...
Chapter 4: The Spider Spins
Chapter 5: Death Trail
Chapter 6: Death Trap
Chapter 7: Hell’s Back Room
Chapter 8: Counter-Attack
Chapter 9: Death’s Long Arm
Chapter 10: The Hunted
Chapter 11: The Lethal List
Chapter 12: The Spider Strikes!
Chapter 13: Blonde Clue
Chapter 14: Death Comes Fast
Chapter 15: Death Alley
Chapter 16: Murder Day
Chapter 17: Slaves of Terror
Chapter 18: Christmas
Chapter 19: The Master
Nick Santa Maria Nick was born early in life in Brooklyn, NY. His theatrical background is based in Comedy Improv. He was a long standing member of the late lamented Miami based, Mental Floss, where he served as head writer/composer. From there he began his career in commercials, voice-overs, TV, Film, and theatre. He has performed in many roles on the stage including his award winning turn as Nick in Over The River And Through The Woods, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, in The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee as Mr. Panch (3-D Theatricals), Mr. Bromhead in No Sex Please, We’re British at The Norris, and as Pseudolus in, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Norris Theatre. Television: The Buffalo Bill Show, B.J. Stryker, and two Disney Christmas Specials. Off Broadway: Writer/Composer/Performer on Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, Soundtrack on RCA Victor. Broadway: Vince Fontaine in Tommy Tune’s production of Grease. He also appeared in every domestic company of Mel Brooks’ The Producers, understudying everyone from Nathan Lane and Jason Alexander, to Tony Danza and David Hassellhoff. He was the original Genie in Disney’s Aladdin, a Musical Spectacular, soundtrack on Disney Records. Nick is a resident of Los Angeles and is currently writing a book about classic film comedians, Nick’s been a long time film historian, and has written several articles on the topic.
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