The Sign of the Spider

'The Sign of the Spider' is an adventure-horror novel written by Bertram Mitford. It tells the story of a man named Laurence Stanninghame, who being fed up with his life and unhappy marriage, chose to run away to Johannesburg, South Africa to start a new life. He did end up doing so; but if he was expecting a better life, what awaits him is anything but that.