Their bites are more than deadly...
The small town near the Everglades was supposed to offer Rachel and her son a fresh start. Instead it offered the start of a nightmare, when an unknown breed of flies migrated through the area, leaving painful bites in their wake. The media warned people to stay inside until the swarm passed. But the flies didn't leave. And then the radios and TVs went silent.
That's when the spiders came. Spiders that could spin a deadly web large enough to engulf an entire house overnight. Spiders that left stripped bones behind as they multiplied. Spiders that, like the flies, sought hungrily for tender flesh... through Violet Eyes.
This collectible version also includes the novelette Violet Lagoon. When a quartet of co-eds decide to reenact The Blue Lagoon on an abandoned Florida Key, they find more than just sex and sand is on the agenda. Stings turn out to play a part in their weekend as well. Lots and lots of stings. But those were just the beginning of the pain...
"Violet Lagoon" was originally planned as the prologue to John Everson's seventh novel Violet Eyes. It was first published as a standalone novelette in the collection Creeptych in 2010. When the novel was completed, the version that appears there was shortened and separated into both a prologue and flashback chapters. This is the full, original version of the novelette.
