Spider

Name: Spider
Author: Patrick McGrath

1990 novel by Patrick McGrath

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Author: Patrick McGrath
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-04-24
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Released: October 1991
, 1990
Publisher: Poseidon Press
, Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Follows: The Grotesque

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Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. In the novel, a psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator, the protagonist wrestles with mental illness and trauma from his past.

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SSpider2002 · 2002 film directed by David Cronenberg

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Narrative location: London
Country of origin: United States
Title: Spider
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-04-01
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Derivative work: Spider
Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-04-28
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Has version, edition or translation: Spider released: 1990 · distribution format: hardcover

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