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A friend remembers a horror story in which giant spiders had overrun the world and a little boy was cocooned as food for hungry baby wolf spiders.

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  • Can you see if you can get any of the details suggested by How to ask a good story-ID question? The timeframe of the story, where he read it, anything like that would help. – DavidW Oct 31 at 17:41
  • This question would be improved if you went through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question? – Valorum Oct 31 at 17:54
  • Did it involve him waking up from a nightmare with spiders, only to realize he was waking up in a cocoon? – FuzzyBoots Oct 31 at 18:10
  • It was in a scary short story collection. – Myles Lobdell Oct 31 at 20:14
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The story is probably "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" by F. Paul Wilson. IT appeared in his collection "Aftershock and Others" from 2009. It's the same one you're thinking of FuzzyBoots.

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  • Ah, the book does look familiar. I got on an F. Paul Wilson kick after reading his Repairman Jack series. – FuzzyBoots Nov 3 at 14:40
  • Wilson is great. Surprised he doesn't have a bigger fanbase. – Emsley Wyatt Nov 3 at 16:25

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