Two excerpts from David Wong's 'This Book Is Full of Spiders... Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It.'

You can read the first 15 pages over at the website JOHN DIES AT THE END

You know how sometimes when you’re drifting off to sleep you feel

that jolt, like you were falling and caught yourself at the last second?

It’s nothing to be concerned about, it’s usually just the parasite adjusting

its grip....

And i09 has n exclusive excerpt here

There exists in this world a spider the size of a dinner plate, a foot wide if you include the legs. It's called the Goliath Bird- Eating Spider, or the "Goliath Fucking Bird- Eating Spider" by those who have actually seen one.

It doesn't eat only birds — it mostly eats rats and insects — but they still call it the "Bird- Eating Spider" because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it. If you run across one of these things, like in your closet or crawling out of your bowl of soup, the first thing somebody will say is, "Watch it, man, that thing can eat a goddamned bird."

I don't know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird- Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Flying Bird- Eating Spider said it was okay...