Grant Stockbridge

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  • Bibliography:
    128 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1934
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Spider (Pocket)

1 - Death Reign of the Vampire King (Jan-1975)
2 - Hordes of the Red Butcher (1935)
3 - City Destroyer (1935)
4 - Death and the Spider (Feb-1975)

Spider: Master of Men

2 - Dictator of the Damned (1937)
2 - The Mill-Town Massacres (1937)
3 - Death's Crimson Juggernaut (1934)
3 - The Red Death Rain (1934)
7 - The Grey Horde Creeps (Oct-1993)
8 - The Spider (May-1991)
Wings of the Black Death (1969)

Book List in Order: 128 titles

  • Death's Crimson Juggernaut

    in The Spider #3
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    Spider: Master of Men - 3

    First introduced in 1933, The Spider starred in 118 novels, had his own pulp magazine, and appeared in two motion picture serials produced by Columbia Pictures. An exciting combination of Batman and the Executioner, The Spider was the inspiration for...

  • The Red Death Rain

    in The Spider #3
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    Spider: Master of Men - 3

    First introduced in 1933, The Spider starred in 118 novels, had his own pulp magazine, and appeared in two motion picture serials produced by Columbia Pictures. An exciting combination of Batman and the Executioner, The Spider was the inspiration for...

  • City Destroyer

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    Spider (Pocket) - 3

    Murder Master Using a stolen formula for a chemical that erodes steel on contact, a band of ruthless killers struck, destroying skyscrapers, roadways and bridges without warning. Thousands were pulverized as steel girders crumbled into powdery fra...

  • Hordes of the Red Butcher

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    Spider (Pocket) - 2

    Death Must Be His Ally Spider was the only survivor of a horrifying slaughter, as beast-men turned the turbo-train into a gory shambles. He had grappled man-to-beast with these subhuman killers and felt the punishment of their staggering strength a...

  • Dictator of the Damned

    in The Spider #2
    Spider: Master of Men - 2

    First published in 1933, The Spider starred in 118 novels, had his own pulp magazine, and appeared in two motion picture serials. This edition contains two novels: Dictator of the Damned, in which New York City is terrorized by a madman, and The Mill...

  • The Mill-Town Massacres

    in The Spider #2
    Spider: Master of Men - 2

    First published in 1933, The Spider starred in 118 novels, had his own pulp magazine, and appeared in two motion picture serials. This edition contains two novels: Dictator of the Damned, in which New York City is terrorized by a madman, and The Mill...

  • The Spider and the Painmaster

    in The Spider #1
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  • Secret City of Crime

    in The Spider #1
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    Nowhere in all the world is there a street so viciously bizarre as Easy Street. Buried deep in the sub-basements of a great New York skyscraper is this carnival-like arcade of crookdom . . . where you can buy firearms, grenades, crackman’s tool...

  • Wings of the Black Death

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    Spider: Master of Men

    Alone and unafraid, the Spider takes his stand, breathing the death-tainted air of a city swept by bubonic plague in his single-handed effort to combat a criminal monster who in cleverness and daring seems to surpass the great Richard Wentworth himse...



  • Death Reign of the Vampire King

    Spider (Pocket) - 1

    Never before had greedy, criminal genius loosed so loathsome and deadly a weapon! The Bat Man-leading a band of savages, releasing clouds of bloodthirsty vampire bats-planned to make himself a greater conqueror than Napoleon or Genghis Khan! One man ...

  • Death and the Spider

    Spider (Pocket) - 4

  • Corpse Cargo

  • Prince of Evil

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  • The Spider

    Spider: Master of Men - 8

    First introduced in 1933, the great action hero returns in two explosive adventures. In The Devil's Paymaster, a vicious gang led by a ghost causes a series of ghastly murders. In Legions of the Accursed Light, a trail of scorched earth sets The Spid...

  • The Grey Horde Creeps

    Spider: Master of Men - 7

    Down from the bleak Kentucky hills swept the stark-naked mob of murder-maddened Blancos-sacking and slaying as they came! Neither steel nor bullet could stem that terror-tide of man-made albino monsters, whipped to a frenzy of lust by their criminal ...

  • The Coming of the Terror

    Stripped of his wealth, cut off from his faithful helpers, Richard Wentworth, known and feared throughout the Underworld as the avenging Spider, struggles with his most powerful and wily foe — the Man who came out of the East! With Wentworth's ...

  • The Wheel of Death

    Mysterious death, suicide, and madness took uncanny toll of New York's most prominent citizens. Only the Spider sensed the presence of the criminal genius whose tentacles were strangling the city- and the Spider was next on the crime monster's death ...

  • The City that Dared Not Eat

    The momentous events in Liverpool 1983-7 sent shock waves across the country. Hardly a week went by without the city being in the news headlines. Financial crises, a unique house building programme, education reform, the Heysel Stadium tragedy, the S...

  • Accursed Thirst

    He was such a creature as even the bravest fled from in frenzied fear!In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names -- the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines -- weird menace is the sub-genre term th...



  • Army of the Dammed

    The reaching tentacles of this new and ghastly crime machine struck at the very heart of a nation already fighting for its life. When it framed youngsters from our armed services straight into the filthiest racket known to mankind, it became too rott...

  • Arthur J. Burks, Book 1

    In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names -- the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines -- weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most popul...

  • Arthur J. Burks, Book 2

    In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most...

  • The Benevolent Order of Death

    A strange hypnotic power of persuasion; the blind, deathless loyalty of innocent thousands; and a ruthless use of the hostage system — these were the weapons of Barnum Wright, leader of the Benevolent Order of Americans! Because of them, Richar...

  • Blight of the Blazing Eye

    Over New York fell the murderous spell of Death's burning stare-and men died in the throes of some terrible, secret, inner fire! Richard Wentworth, alone, as the Spider, dared challenge this astounding attack by a modern Genghis Khan gone mad with a ...

  • Builders of the Black Empire

    By what strange twist of Fate did the fearful menace which was to shadow every man and woman in New York City first rear its venomous head in the distant Caribbean? When terror suddenly boarded a little tramp steamer and left crimson havoc littering ...

  • The Cholera King

    Death in its ugliest form ravaged America. An ambitious, clever madman, master of a far-flung criminal empire, spread cholera germs through every rank and class of a large and totally unsuspecting populace. Numbed by terror, the citizens fled from ce...

  • The Citadel of Hell

    Men fought snarling in the streets over crusts of bread or ferreted, beast-like, through the charred ruins of some once-majestic building in search of food scraps... To such dire state had the city fallen when the Spider, weakened by weeks of illness...

  • City of Dreadful Night

    Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a place of desolation and terror. The Thu...

  • City of Flaming Shadows

    Wherever fell that cursed, man-made gloom, there followed the flame-makers, the grim horde of lawless men who sought, through wholesale murder and swift destruction, to drain the life-blood of the nation... The Spider, death circled, meets the test s...



  • City of Whispering Death

    No criminal dared testify against another, while the Whisper was crime-emperor of New York-and the forces of the law were powerless against the ravages of the Underworld! For when the Whisper's eerie warning fell over Manhattan men died, slashed to b...

  • The City Destoryer

    Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world -- conducting the commerce of the nation -- when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind....

  • The City of Lost Men

    Over New York's Finest-the police organization without equal in the world-fell the blight of lunacy, sweeping on like wildfire until it had turned Manhattan into a chill, whimpering madhouse and released the helpless city's wealth to a wild carnival ...

  • The City that Paid to Die

    Deeper and deeper New York had sunk in the grip of the Underworld monarch — until the law was licked at last! But in that moment of desperation, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, resolved to fight the underworld with its own savage weapons. Wit...

  • Claws of the Golden Dragon

    From sinister Chinatown came the epidemic of terror that fell upon New York. For all over Manhattan defenseless citizens were dying with a Blood Orchid in their hearts! Through the rain of red petals that filled the sky, the Dragon screamed his ultim...

  • The Coming of the Terror

    Stripped of his wealth, cut off from his faithful helpers, Richard Wentworth, known and feared throughout the Underworld as the avenging Spider, struggles with his most powerful and wily foe -- the Man who came out of the East! With Wentworth's bes...

  • The Corpse Broker

    With terrible swiftness, the Master of the Green Death had struck. His victims lay in the streets, verdant-hued and ghastly-and the Underworld, which he had protected against all reprisal, ran riot in a Manhattan horror-holiday of loot and murder!...

  • The Council of Evil

    When Nita van Sloan appeared ready to expose Richard Wentworth as a calculating cold-blooded murderer, Wentworth knew with stunning clarity that the Council of Evil -- a body formed by his worst past enemies -- possessed new, ghastly weapons with...

  • The Crime Laboratory

    Bringing the corrupt District Attorney into the shadow of the Chair was one of the Spider’s most brilliant and daring strokes, until -- just as the Crime Corporation’s leaders were about to be exposed -- Richard Wentworth suffered the blow th...

  • The Criminal Horde

    They formed a corporation of killers, those seven masters of crime whose plan was to loot a city and terrify its people into submission. It was a plan born in the twisted brain of a genius of evil — the Masked Man — whose ruthlessness con...



  • Devil's Pawnbroker

    Deep-hidden in evil, Satan's Suicide Club sat in council — and men died. What dreadful force drove these men, leaders of society with everything to live for, to end their lives at the behest of that sinister being who sardonically called himsel...

  • The Devil's Candlesticks

    Overnight, a bizarre crime wave had gripped New York, turning America's First Families into criminals who, for savage lawlessness, outdid the Underworld! Society's Four Hundred had now become a ghastly, blood-thirsting set of thieves and murderers. E...

  • The Devil's Death Dwarfs

  • The Devil's Paymaster

    People were dying by the score — dying painfully, of an ailment absolutely unknown to science! Each victim had recently touched some precious metal; only that much was determined... until Richard Wentworth, in the sinister guise of the Spider, ...

  • Dictator's Death Merchants

    Never before had the destruction of Richard Wentworih, alias the Spider, seemed so imminent. For El Crocodilo, mysterious crime king from the past, forestalled Dick's every move -- even influencing Nita van Sloan to lead the man she loved into the ...

  • Dragon Lof of the Underworld

    In the heart of New York’s Chinatown, on his imperial throne, guarded by swordsmen and gunmen and a labyrinth of death traps, sat the Arch-Criminal of all time. Master of life and death, of disease, of horrible, crawling things -- the Emperor of ...

  • Emperor of the Yellow Death

    Pitiless, astute, ambitious, yellow-skinned Wang-ba emerged from the mystic Orient to proclaim himself Emperor of America! Sight of his green face caused blood-curdling terror; his anger could be appeased only by soul-twisting agony and writhing, lon...

  • The Emperor from Hell

    “Your souls are mine -- when I speak, you will obey!” From the bowels of the shaking earth itself rose the satanic ultimatum that threatened to send America’s greatest city up in flames! For the hordes of Hades, ruled by a devilish dictator, ...

  • Empire of Doom

    City after city faces the grim attack of the Green Hand’s ghastly death vapors and is laid waste. ow can the Spider, sickened by the death screams of agonized thousands, check the rising power of the new Dictator -- and at the same time conceal h...

  • Fangs of the Dragon

    As a chemist breeds germ-culture in a test tube, so did the Dragon, an unknown murder genius to whom horror was a weapon and a toy, breed crime in the little town of Bethbury! Richard Wentworth was fighting a hopeless, losing battle, until -- with ...



  • The Flame Master

    Richard Wentworth was playing the most dangerous game in the world-a man-hunter outside the law; a righteous lone-wolf avenger of the weak; a scourge of the evil, the wicked and the corrupt! Loathed by the organized armies of the underworld, hunted r...

  • Green Globes of Death

    Richard Wentworth-who, as the swift-killing Spider, is the scourge of the Underworld-thought the Fly was dead. But once more that most formidable enemy had arisen, pillaging, slaying wantonly, armed with a ghastly new weapon, the Green Globes of Deat...

  • Harbor of Nameless Dead

    Who was the Master — the fabulous power whose murder emissaries spread through the country like wildfire? Did he represent a vicious foreign combine, or was he a super-criminal who sought to loot and plunder a world occupied with the horrors of...

  • Hell Rolls on the Highways!

    The very structure of our war effort was threatened. Great cargo laden trailer-trucks and mammoth, passenger-filled busses were crashing mysteriously to flaming destruction on our highways! . . . Read how Richard Wentworth, in the sinister robes of t...

  • Hell's Sales Manager

    It was a weird, new weapon in the annals of crime. It sucked screaming people, automobiles, huge buildings — everything — into its hungry vortex of destruction, while its owner, a monster called the Brand, safely conducted his awful reign...

  • The Howling Death

    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 ...

  • Judgment of the Damned

    There was no way to crush Judge Torture, the mad legalite whose weird court had strewn the city with broken, dismembered victims. But there was one individual -- Richard Wentworth -- who, in the guise of the Spider, dared steal the thunder from J...

  • King of the Fleshless Legion

    The Spider faces a grim mass murderer who holds sway over Manhattan -- when poisoned drugs paralyze the medical profession and turn New York’s hospitals into a hell of betrayed human sufferers!...

  • A Kiss for the Blood Lady

  • Laboratory of the Damned

    Richard Wentworth -- whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the Spider have made him world-famous -- was the first objective in the Poison Master’s murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Slo...

  • Legions of Madness

    Never had Richard Wentworth -- he who is the scourge of the Underworld in his guise of the Spider -- faced such tremendous odds or been so alone in the strife! Nita, his beloved, had tried to kill him, was hopelessly insane. His faithful servant ...

  • Legions of the Accursed Light

    Like an eerie devil-dawn, that green death-ray spread its lethal shadow over New York -- burning to smoking crisps the helpless hundreds who dared its path. For the Eye of Flame had loosed his fire-fiends upon America’s proudest city, and, as pri...

  • Machine Guns over the White House

    Before the horrified eyes of the Senate's jammed galleries, that revered Senator died by his own hand. And Richard Wentworth, who had reached Washington in response to the newspaper agony column's personal, In the name of democratic humanity, come to...

  • The Mad Horde

    Never before in history had anything quite so horrible as the Mad Horde been loosed upon a terrified humanity! In rural towns and through the thronging streets of great cities the death-bringers stalked, spreading the slow madness of which they thems...

  • The Man from Hell

    So devastating was the ghastly power Professor Secundus wielded over the hapless city — and over his sightless, kill-crazy slaves in particular — that Richard Wentworth asked New York to surrender to the King of Crime!... How could the Sp...

  • The Man Who Ruled in Hell

    A blood-red mailed fist crashed into the shadowy dens of New York's underworld, dangling the promise of vast loot for alliance, and a threat of stark horror for betrayal. The answer came swiftly in an orgy of killing and rapine-the Red Hand ruled all...

  • Master of the Death-Madness

    The madness first struck at sea! As if at a signal, young and old initiated the wild bacchanal of self-destruction! Never before had a criminal of such horrible, death-dealing genius preyed upon the American people. Never before did Richard Wentworth...

  • Master of the Flaming Horde

    Over Manhattan's dizzy towers fell that insidious, invisible menace-an unseen cloud of death that first transformed the entire metropolis into a laughing, drunken riot and then blasted it to bits! Who was the evil Master of these Flame Men, who had f...

  • Master of the Night-Demons

  • The Mayor of Hell

    In that single, unguarded moment while he played his precious Stradivarius, the combined forces of the Mayor of Hell -- the crooked Law and the vengeful Underworld -- besieged Richard Wentworth, otherwise known as the Spider, nemesis of criminals...

  • Murder's Legionnaires

    He was known only as the Devil and, because he inflicted hideous death merely by looking at his victims, no one ever lived to describe him! So great was his incredible cunning that he hid behind the authority of the Mayor, behind the honor of the Pol...

  • A Night in Camberwell

    A tale of one dark night's adventure that you will not soon forget...In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre te...

  • Overlord of the Damned

    The Spider -- who was really Richard Wentworth, a true American aristocrat -- had fought a hundred battles and faced a thousand foes... But never before had a more brilliant criminal genius challenged him. For the Boss, employing a horrible, new ...

  • The Pain Emperor

    In a hundred thousand homes, families sat down together at the supper table. A few hours later, those persons were dead-killed by poison in canned foods! Thousands of women used cosmetics, and acid made their faces forever hideously scarred. A master...

  • Pirates from Hell

    Across these broad United States swept the grisly hordes of LaFitte, modern counterpart of ancient, blood-thirsty piracy. In their horrible wake remained only red ruin and the charred skeletons of the Nation’s crack trains... Such was the criminal ...

  • Prince of the Red Looters

    The strains of Pagliacci had barely died away, when above the glittering Diamond Horseshoe of the Metropolitan Opera House there shrilled the panicked cry of a multitude in mortal terror. Death swooped upon the horrified audience. Despite the warning...

  • Recruit of the Spider Legion

    The Master and his evil clan of one-eyed executioners sprung their man-breaker trap on Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick. The Spider, speeding to the aid of his friendly enemy, Kirkpatrick, brought the full fury of Kali’s assassins down on his ow...

  • Reign of the Death Fiddler

    Exactly at eleven-thirty each Thursday night the Death Fiddler conducted his unholy orchestra in a symphony of murder which sounded the doom of some marked victim. A master of the grotesque, he held an entire city in the strangle-hold of a helpless t...

  • Reign of the Silver Terror

    Far beneath the earth, in a cavern luridly lit for festival, were gathered the honored makers of the nation’s laws. And the Spider, attending uninvited, knew that in a matter of minutes these men would cease to exist! They would die at the hand...

  • Reign of the Snake Men

    Up from the Devil’s Coast swarmed a hooded horde, rioting to lay America under The Cobra’s bondage. A frenzied living Pharaoh raked Manhattan with madness and murder. Against a baffling human wall that dies but never betrays its menacing master, ...

  • Return of the Racket Kings

    While the nation’s law enforcement bodies, great and small, engage in all-out action against elements seeking to undermine America’s stupendous war effort, a long-dormant menace blooms into dreadful flower! The racket kings rise once agai...

  • Revolt of the Underworld

    With only a small boy to tend his grave wounds; with every bluecoat hunting him on charges of kidnapping, murder and treason, how could Richard Wentworth — as himself or in the grim guise of the Spider — possibly quell a gigantic Underwor...

  • Rule of the Monster Men

    The veterinarian's ambulance was jammed, not with afflicted animals, but with human beings -- monstrously deformed, and driven out into the street by men with whips! Richard Wentworth beheld this horror, and realized that a new Reign of Terror had ...

  • Satan's Death Blast

    How fight a menace which strikes without warning -- which disintegrates flesh and blood and stone to mere chemical atoms! Men fled in blind panic from the merest rumor of a new attack, and even the Spider -- dodging the death blasts -- can find...

  • Satan's Murder Machines

    How could a lone man, ceaselessly hunted by the law and a deadly under-world alike, hope to save the terrified city from the Iron Man -- a super-being whose cohorts were giant, unconquerable robots of steel! Read how the Master of Men rose up to cr...

  • Satan's Seven Swordsmen

    Under the weird, topaz gaze of Dr. Fuji, Giver of the Gracious Death, underlings who failed him gladly took their own lives! And before his hypnotic power, fell Lona Deeping, Marianne, Ronald Jackson, Ram Singh -- and, he thought, the Spider! A bat...

  • Satan's Shackles

    Never again would the Spider wage battle against crime -- this Richard Wentworth had sworn to himself as he found sanctuary in a quiet rural retreat to nurse back to health the woman he loved. Yet, into that peaceful spot swept a whirlwind of horri...

  • Satan's Sightless Legion

    It is Wentworth himself -- the Spider -- who is first to feel the dread hand of that Master of Darkness -- The Blind Man, and his satanic weapon. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, Commissioner of Police, is strangely attacked by the forces of evil;...

  • Satan's Switchboard

    Stillness like that of the cold tombs had descended upon America's greatest city, and in that cheerless, ringing void, no man dared raise his voice above a whisper. For the Silencer was at work, his giant ear strained to catch the innermost secrets o...

  • Satan's Workshop

    There was no clue to the kidnapping of wealthy, powerful men and beautiful, talented women — until the Man Who Dealt in Death broke into Richard Wentworth’s stroll in the moonlight with the wanton wounding of his own lookout. From that st...

  • Scourge of the Black Legions

    Over New York had swept the Master's dread Black Police-wiping out the last organized resistance to their ruthless Underworld rule of the Empire State! Only Richard Wentworth, his forces scattered, could hope to succeed where thousands had failed-and...

  • Scourge of the Yellow Fangs

    War gongs clanged in Chinatown -- but it was no tong war that tore the great Societies with fear and suspicion and deadly hate. For deeper in evil mystery than their own dark secrets lay the hidden temple of crime that loosed the Scourge of the Yel...

  • Serpent of Destruction

    No man was safe in the city streets -- no woman could be left long alone in her own home -- when the Underworld, newly organized into one compact army of crime, declared a new and bloody social war against society. How can the Spider, his prestig...

  • The Silver Death Rain

    An epidemic of strange and sudden death had placed New York in the ruthless grip of an Underworld master such as the world had never seen. The Law was powerless against this nighttime Nemesis. But Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, had one more blow t...

  • Slaves of the Black Monarch

    Ruthless, invulnerable, that Scarred Hand reached out to destroy the entire law machine of New York-blasting into merciless oblivion those juries which dared convict even a single criminal. In that twilight of terror, when empty cells yawned for the ...

  • Slaves of the Burning Blade

    Of only one factor was Richard Wentworth certain: Sperryville’s super terrorist was The Knife — most dreaded and bizarre murderer Europe ever sent us! But was The Knife posing as Sergeant Maurice, sworn enemy of Wentworth and the Spider? ...

  • Slaves of the Crime Master

    Never before has the Spider, Master of Men, crusader extraordinary against the Underworld, been faced with such overwhelming difficulties. A magically persuasive radio voice luring thousands of young people to crime; a scientific madman dealing germi...

  • Slaves of the Dragon

    White slavery, the loathsome traffic in women’s bodies -- and souls -- was stripping America of wives, sisters and sweethearts. Richard Wentworth, valiant champion of human rights, knew that an Oriental master criminal was captaining the slaver...

  • Slaves of the Laughing Death

    Out of the dim recesses of the past came Munro, Man of a Thousand Faces, to corner America’s gold with a sinister agency for devouring flesh... and with a mysterious power to control mass emotions at will! Only one man was equipped to fight him...

  • Slaves of the Muder Syndicate

    Never before had a shrewd criminal leader so successfully defied the Law -- and the Spider’s sure vengeance! A powerful Eastern murder syndicate, employing two deadly weapons, held America for ransom, spreading pain and terror and red destruction...

  • Slaves of the Ring

    An ill newspaper editor, his daughter, a hard-hitting reporter, and a tough newstruck driver -- these were the tiny nucleus Richard Wentworth must build into an Army of Liberty, to save the fear-paralyzed people of the State of New Amsterdam from a...

  • The Song of Death

    Upon New York fell the haunting notes of the death-dirge -- and those who heard it died in raving madness! For a powerful murder-musician had conquered Manhattan with his symphony of slaughter, and before this unprecedented menace the law was whipp...

  • The Spider and Hell's Factory

    On a wave of crime and terror that was like a mass blood purge, Hell’s own handyman, the killer the underworld knew only as THE CHIEF, swept into America’s greatest center of war industry. His ruthless goal was to force the valiant legion...

  • The Spider and His Hobo Army

    Murder and destruction had momentarily stupefied the nation. The zero hour had come. The vast and insidious Order of the Double Cross was ready to blast America from the face of the earth! Could Dick Wentworth, alias the Spider, wounded and at bay, c...

  • The Spider and the Death Piper

    On a quiet night in Martinsville came the soft music, mounting slowly to an eerie, penetrating pulse, compelling... calling. Heeding it, Frank Craven leaped to his death! Thus began the Suicide Plague, a ghastly epidemic set to the music of the Mad P...

  • The Spider and the Deathless One

    Pinch-hitting as Police Commissioner for his friend Kirkpatrick, Richard Wentworth found himself in the most difficult spot of his long career, when Munro — the Deathless One — came back to loot the city and destroy the Spider, at the ver...

  • The Spider and the Eyeless Legion

    How could a man, enslaved and blinded, still strike terror to the hearts of his captors? How could that man, apparently helpless, remain the only hope of a city laid low by crime? Read here how the Master of Men cast off his shackles and led a popula...

  • The Spider and the Faceless One

    Another Spider adventure: Can even the Spider successfully combat the flame master who has no face, yet who masks himself with the features of a thousand victims-as terror spreads throughout a great city?...

  • The Spider and the Fire God

    The Master of Flame and Burning Death held New York fast in unholy worship of his strange god. For thousands had fled their doomed churches, lest they perish by fire -- and the Spider alone remained to face this monstrous cult-leader from hell!...

  • The Spider and the Flame King

    If you lived in the oil-field city of Piperstown, you’d be afraid to open the door of your own home . . . for nitro hell might explode in your very face. You’d dread stepping on the starter of your car. You’d cringe from opening your own breadb...

  • The Spider and the Jewels of Hell

    Tough and dauntless were Colorado’s mining sons. But these hardy men were helpless in terror as their homes were destroyed, their loved ones mangled and slaughtered by The Killer — a crime colossus who sought to cripple America by seizing...

  • The Spider and the Man from Hell

    So devastating was the ghastly power Professor Secundus wielded over the hapless city -- and over his sightless, kill-crazy slaves in particular -- that Richard Wentworth asked New York to surrender to the King of Crime!... How could the Spider, ...

  • The Spider and the Pain Master

    What chance had Richard Wentworth-alone-of crushing Red Feather, an amazing murder mogul who drafted legions of innocent New Yorkers into his vile service by the infliction of unbearable, scientifically applied pain? Read, in this strong, book length...

  • The Spider and the Scarlet Surgeon

    With a skill unheard of, the fabulous Red Surgeon changed people into imbe- ciles... or geniuses of crime! Thus did he found an empire built on murder and, incredibly, sought as his lieutenants... Kirkpatrick, Nita van Sloan and the Spider -- with ...

  • The Spider and the Slave Doctor

    In the name of Humanity, young Doctor Gilmuir bravely faced execution for a ghastly murder he didn’t commit! And Richard Wentworth, the only man who could save him, must first crush the slaves of the Man in the Red Mask — the master-kille...

  • The Spider and the Slaves of Hell

    Out of the shadows of nocturnal Manhattan came the Master of Darkness whose Underworld rule was bloody and absolute. For when this butcher unleashed his Hounds of Hell, defenseless citizens were blown, one by one, into extinction!...

  • The Spider and the Sons of Satan

    Who was the strange new Overlord of Crime who had the power to exact tribute from the Underworld’s every member? How could he force even the mildest outlaw to slaughter cops on sight? Lovely, mysterious Samantha McDoune, orphaned by murder, trailed...

  • The Spider and the War Emperor

    When an American steel magnate commits suicide in public... when a senator’s secretary blows his head off in the Senate Chamber... when Rick Wentworth, alias the Spider, is forced to watch in silence while the prince of an Oriental Underworld t...

  • The Spider at Bay

    New York was powerless in the hands of the Black Police and its maddened master — and when men dared oppose this red regime of the Underworld, they were struck down by a frightful plague! Even the Federal government, which had stepped in to hol...

  • Volunteer Corpse Brigade

    What chance had Civilization to survive -- with Smiler Miordan’s vast Underworld Union coming to full power... with his new and deadly plague destroying all who dared oppose him?... Could Nita’s pitifully brave coup stay the Murder Tide long en...

  • Voyage of the Coffin Ship

    Coffins and gold lay side by side in the strongroom of the liner that was sailing to its doom. And Richard Wentworth had picked that ship to carry Nita and himself to their long-delayed honeymoon in Europe! Denounced by Baron Otuna as a pirate, assai...

  • When Satan Came to Town

    As if he did not have enough death and danger threatening every moment because of his dual identity as the SPIDER — that great crime-crusader hunted and hated by police and underworld alike — Richard Wentworth now took on a third role. An...

  • When Thousands Slept in Hell

    Sinisterly beckoning, the long bony finger signaled Manhattan to its mass death-slaying hundreds of helpless victims who dared sink into a sleep from which there could be no awakening this side of hell! While the Underworld's lawless hordes looted, o...

  • The Withering Death

    Sere, ghastly, the Severed Hand brought its grisly warning to New York. Its citizens must pay the extortioner’s price or die, their living bodies slowly, agonizingly transformed into rigid mummies! The police were helpless, and only Richard Wen...

  • Zara-Master of Murder

    When night falls you’ll think of Zara. You’ll see those eyes of his glowing with the very fires of hell -- and you’ll be glad that the Spider prowls the night to help mankind. For Zara rose from underworld filth . . . to enslave all peoples. ...

  • The Spider #63

    Sere, ghastly, the Severed Hand brought its grisly warning to New York. Its citizens must pay the extortioner's price or die, their living bodies slowly, agonizingly transformed into rigid mummies! The police were helpless, and only Richard Wentworth...

  • The Spider #64

    It was a scarlet scorpion that reached Richard Wentworth, warning him that the Far East had crept forth from its Chinatown lair to raid New York! Victims were dying with a blood orchid in their hearts, and the Dragon screamed! With the police helples...

  • The Silver Death Reign

    An epidemic of strange and sudden death had placed New York in the ruthless grip of an Underworld master such as the world had never seen. The Law was powerless against this night-time Nemesis. But Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, had one more blow ...

  • The Spider #68

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Grant Stockbridge has published 128 books.

Grant Stockbridge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Spider #68, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Grant Stockbridge, Death's Crimson Juggernaut, was published in January 1934.

Yes. Grant Stockbridge has 2 series.
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