title: Drawing With Letters: The Haunted Creeps and Ghastly Ghouls of Spiderbite
author:  Steve Harpster 
description: Steve Harpster has illustrated over 100 books for kids. Harpster's latest books are a series of how-to-draw books that teach kids how to draw starting with a number or letter. Harpster lives in Cincinnati Ohio with his wife, son, and two big dogs.
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  ## IN THE ATTIC
  
  
  
  
  
  Cobwebs came spinning toward him from all sides—growing, multiplying at a
  fantastic rate. Stringy cobwebby
  
  
  fingers reaching for him, encircling him, crawling across his skin and around
  his body. He couldn’t move—and now the horrible sticky tendrils were creeping
  across his face, his eyes! _He couldn’t see!_
  
  
  
  
  
  Peter opened his mouth to scream and cobwebs flowed in, blotting his strangled
  cry like a thick wad of cotton. And now there were tendrils slithering into
  his ears and crawling into his nose. He couldn’t breathe. _He couldn’t
  breathe!_
  
  
  
  
  
  Even as the cobwebs drew him up toward the rafters, even as the last breath
  was squeezed from his body, Peter Beaufort kept telling himself that this all
  had to be some kind of macabre joke, because things like this didn’t happen…
  
  
  
  
  
  And never in the daytime.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is a work of fictio