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Night Weaver
Grant, Oregon, 1986
There's an old house that is the center of many speculations and whispers from the folks back in town. This house was the center of an atrocious occurrence that left many of the animals in the area dead, some dissolved. Then one day, it all just seemed to go away; forgotten as if nothing happened. But, this time, instead of the locals' pets disappearing, two kids go missing, and the town is in an uproar. For Sheriff Jim Kirby and Deputy Justin McAtee, they're about to face a horror no amount of bug spray or boot heels can prevent.
There's an old house that is the center of many speculations and whispers from the folks back in town. This house was the center of an atrocious occurrence that left many of the animals in the area dead, some dissolved. Then one day, it all just seemed to go away; forgotten as if nothing happened. But, this time, instead of the locals' pets disappearing, two kids go missing, and the town is in an uproar. For Sheriff Jim Kirby and Deputy Justin McAtee, they're about to face a horror no amount of bug spray or boot heels can prevent.
- GenresHorror
133 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 25, 2022
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Brian G. Berry
56 books286 followersa.k.a Brian Berry
Brian G Berry is new to the world of writing. He writes everything from 1980s inspired horror, SCIFI/Action-horror, to the strange. His biggest influences are the writers of the weird including Lovecraft, Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, to the pulp horror authors of the golden age 70s/80s- and a splattering of others. Author of The Pail, A Bloody Christmas, Splatter Fiend Series, Slasherback Series, Campfire Tales Beneath a Pallid Moon, Accursed Ground, Blood Lanes, The Night Mutilator, Thanksgiving Day Massacre, and his newest: SNOW SHARK.
Brian G Berry is new to the world of writing. He writes everything from 1980s inspired horror, SCIFI/Action-horror, to the strange. His biggest influences are the writers of the weird including Lovecraft, Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, to the pulp horror authors of the golden age 70s/80s- and a splattering of others. Author of The Pail, A Bloody Christmas, Splatter Fiend Series, Slasherback Series, Campfire Tales Beneath a Pallid Moon, Accursed Ground, Blood Lanes, The Night Mutilator, Thanksgiving Day Massacre, and his newest: SNOW SHARK.
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November 16, 2022
Berry's a Screamweaver!
My second read from Berry, and this one's an absolute blast. It's brutal, fast-paced, and filled with killer writing. Here's a sample of Berry's prose:
It was horrible. And he felt weird and strange and terrified as the house came into view. That structure out there was more than a house, it was a gateway; a portal to a realm of perpetual nightmare. It was every child’s worst fear; the empty, black house with windows like the eyes of a bone crunching goblin and just as heartless.
I'd love to see NIGHT WEAVER on a big screen. Highly recommended!
My second read from Berry, and this one's an absolute blast. It's brutal, fast-paced, and filled with killer writing. Here's a sample of Berry's prose:
It was horrible. And he felt weird and strange and terrified as the house came into view. That structure out there was more than a house, it was a gateway; a portal to a realm of perpetual nightmare. It was every child’s worst fear; the empty, black house with windows like the eyes of a bone crunching goblin and just as heartless.
I'd love to see NIGHT WEAVER on a big screen. Highly recommended!
November 6, 2022
1986, Grant, Oregon: there's an old, isolated house said to be infested with spiders - but not normal spiders. These arachnids are rumored to be not even of this planet. The people of Grant avoid this dwelling like the plague, lest they come face to face with the creatures that infest it.
After the resident was found dead inside the home a year ago, the property fell into disrepair. The house became the talk of the town; stories spread of the strange goings-on there: dead animals - wild and pets alike - were found regularly around the edges of the property, little more than bones.
An entomological research team was brought in eventually, but found the causes of death inconclusive. Even stranger still were the bite marks found on the animals. Bites that came from an unknown species of arachnid. After three cows were found drained of their marrow and strung up in webs, a small group of epidemiologists set up in town, hoping to put an end to the towns troublesome and unusual problem.
Funnily enough, the animal mutilations stopped - seemingly overnight. A month passed with no further incidents and the team pulled out. Two weeks later, two teenage boys go missing; this sends the town into an uproar, and rumors and speculation abound.
When Sheriff John Kirby holds a town meeting, one of the boys parents tells Sheriff Kirby to check "The Spider House;" Kirby reacts angrily, adamant the rumors about the house are ridiculous. But deep down, Sheriff Kirby knows that house is nothing to scoff at; he's seen more than he's willing to admit - and he's not the only one in town who knows the truth about the property. No matter how badly he wants to avoid the house, the sheriff vows to do everything in his power to locate the missing boys; even if it means finally facing the fears he's been trying to bury.
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I loved it and I thought it was super fun and fast paced; the cover art is amazing - can't wait to read more of his work.
After the resident was found dead inside the home a year ago, the property fell into disrepair. The house became the talk of the town; stories spread of the strange goings-on there: dead animals - wild and pets alike - were found regularly around the edges of the property, little more than bones.
An entomological research team was brought in eventually, but found the causes of death inconclusive. Even stranger still were the bite marks found on the animals. Bites that came from an unknown species of arachnid. After three cows were found drained of their marrow and strung up in webs, a small group of epidemiologists set up in town, hoping to put an end to the towns troublesome and unusual problem.
Funnily enough, the animal mutilations stopped - seemingly overnight. A month passed with no further incidents and the team pulled out. Two weeks later, two teenage boys go missing; this sends the town into an uproar, and rumors and speculation abound.
When Sheriff John Kirby holds a town meeting, one of the boys parents tells Sheriff Kirby to check "The Spider House;" Kirby reacts angrily, adamant the rumors about the house are ridiculous. But deep down, Sheriff Kirby knows that house is nothing to scoff at; he's seen more than he's willing to admit - and he's not the only one in town who knows the truth about the property. No matter how badly he wants to avoid the house, the sheriff vows to do everything in his power to locate the missing boys; even if it means finally facing the fears he's been trying to bury.
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I loved it and I thought it was super fun and fast paced; the cover art is amazing - can't wait to read more of his work.
October 25, 2022
Brian G Berry spins a creature feature that is equal parts Weird Tales and video store madness.
Night Weaver has the initial closeness of a campfire story before evolving in scope to cosmic proportions. Berry’s clear love of classic weird fiction means that larger and more sinister forces animate the drama. Ancient spider mythology and lost cities merge with small town disappearances with perfect ease. This is the sort of book that promises entertainment and delivers. Additionally, this short novel features perhaps the nastiest scene including spiders I have ever read (which is certainly an accomplishment). Moments from the story took me back to giant bug classics like Mosquito, Skeeter, and Spiders. If you are familiar with Berry’s work, this will give you a sense of familiarity while also offering something new.
This novel boasts a fast paced story and makes plenty of creative creature choices. The novel remained unpredictable throughout which made for an enjoyable and entertaining reading experience. I’m excited to see where Berry takes this new series.
Night Weaver has the initial closeness of a campfire story before evolving in scope to cosmic proportions. Berry’s clear love of classic weird fiction means that larger and more sinister forces animate the drama. Ancient spider mythology and lost cities merge with small town disappearances with perfect ease. This is the sort of book that promises entertainment and delivers. Additionally, this short novel features perhaps the nastiest scene including spiders I have ever read (which is certainly an accomplishment). Moments from the story took me back to giant bug classics like Mosquito, Skeeter, and Spiders. If you are familiar with Berry’s work, this will give you a sense of familiarity while also offering something new.
This novel boasts a fast paced story and makes plenty of creative creature choices. The novel remained unpredictable throughout which made for an enjoyable and entertaining reading experience. I’m excited to see where Berry takes this new series.
July 24, 2023
Part insect Horror, part creature feature, I had a fun time reading this! I truly fear spiders, but I really enjoyed how Berry writes.
December 16, 2022
Berry continues to hone his craft, getting better and better with each release. His writing flows so smoothly, almost poetically. He's mastered how to bring you from being an observer to the story, to feeling like you're right in the middle of it.
This book was perfectly creepy crawly and had the right amount of gore.
This book was perfectly creepy crawly and had the right amount of gore.
March 30, 2023
Brian. Burger. Bae. Berry. Funny story, David Cronenberg one time visited the set of Arachnophobia and fired everyone except himself. No one knows how he had the ability to do that, but he did. Brian Berry travelled to a dimension where that really did happen and wrote the novelization of that movie. Seriously, Nightweaver is an ooey gooey nonstop 4d amusement park ride of a book. As always with a Berry book, you better bring along a tarp and umbrella because it gets pretty gnarly. This one though, this one may have taken the cake with all of the….. and the….. This isn’t just a book about crazy spider horror either. This thing has some elements of cosmic horror as well as weird mutated monster whatever the hell I just read abouts. If you’re a Berry fan, as I am, this one will make you feel like you’re on a sugar high watching some VHS trash you rented at the local mom and pop. K thx.
October 26, 2022
Spooktober 2022 Book 13
4.5 stars
Berry’s take on monstrous, malevolent spiders is nothing new, but man, it’s a ton of fun.
The spiders in Night Weaverare mean, vicious bastards and never once does Berry let you forget it, from opening page to an absolutely phenomenal last sentence, these giant arachnids take no prisoners or offer any mercy.
Berry has quickly exploded onto the indie book market and with a style similar to Tim Curran, is showing his writing chops, dabbling in various aspects of horror, though, with books like Night Weaver I think the “creature feature” sub genre is clearly his forte. I can’t wait to see what crazy ideas come next…
4.5 stars
Berry’s take on monstrous, malevolent spiders is nothing new, but man, it’s a ton of fun.
The spiders in Night Weaverare mean, vicious bastards and never once does Berry let you forget it, from opening page to an absolutely phenomenal last sentence, these giant arachnids take no prisoners or offer any mercy.
Berry has quickly exploded onto the indie book market and with a style similar to Tim Curran, is showing his writing chops, dabbling in various aspects of horror, though, with books like Night Weaver I think the “creature feature” sub genre is clearly his forte. I can’t wait to see what crazy ideas come next…
March 9, 2023
Awesome book. Recommend it to anyone who's a fan of strong prose and extreme horror spiders.
November 4, 2022
Wow!! I still feel like these spiders are crawling over me! That's what this book does to you. I loved how it tapped into my worst fears about spiders and made them crawl off the pages. If you love horror and hate spiders this book is for you!
November 10, 2022
Insect/Creatures features aren't usually my Jam, but I was on board for one by Brian G Berry. Brian nails the pulpy feel of insect horror novels from the 80s and amps up the carnage. Like his other stories, this one was a blast to read 🕷🕸
November 18, 2022
A flesh crawling creature feature
Night Weaver is a killer spider novel with A dash of cosmic horror. The lucky ones are eaten. The unlucky ones are transformed or used for nesting. It's a fast, frightful read full of creepy crawlies and gooey horrors.
Night Weaver is a killer spider novel with A dash of cosmic horror. The lucky ones are eaten. The unlucky ones are transformed or used for nesting. It's a fast, frightful read full of creepy crawlies and gooey horrors.
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October 19, 2022Releasing 10/25/22
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December 12, 2022
I feel them on me!!!
I have let’s say a phobia of bugs, when I see them I think I feel them crawling on me. So books like this kind of get to me and that’s a good thing because it’s the one thing that causes me fear. This book will seriously give you a fear of spiders if you already don’t have one.
I can’t say much without giving too much away, but this book will leave you totally creeped the hell out! I loved it. Beware The Night Weaver!!!!
I have let’s say a phobia of bugs, when I see them I think I feel them crawling on me. So books like this kind of get to me and that’s a good thing because it’s the one thing that causes me fear. This book will seriously give you a fear of spiders if you already don’t have one.
I can’t say much without giving too much away, but this book will leave you totally creeped the hell out! I loved it. Beware The Night Weaver!!!!
January 31, 2023
I was very impressed with this one. It embraces a lot of classic tropes while being quite unique. Some of the imagery was downright incredible and the mood shifts from silly to scary very smoothly. My only complaint was the somewhat clunky prose and often messy sentence structure. My first Brian Berry read. As far as these indie extreme authors go, I'd rank him as way better than Jon Athan and not quite as good as Carl John Lee.
November 24, 2022
Another BGB Banger. This man is churning out books at the cyclic rate, and somehow the quality of the output is getting better even though its coming at such a fast clip. This book is creepy, its gory, and it pulls no punches. Brian had me finishing this book in one sitting. Fantastic book, and maybe my favorite by the author so far.
May 16, 2023
Pretty good book, spiders 🕷️ are really not something that scares me, but I will say that some passage were pretty gruesome !! 🤮 love the ending too!! If spiders scares you , your in for a scary ride !!
3.8 stars round up to 4
3.8 stars round up to 4
December 22, 2025
This book takes place in a small town haunted by the dark history of one house. When two children enter and never leave, the town spring into action.
The house is infested with parasitic spiders which turn their victims into zombie-like creatures. These are led by an "alpha zombie" of sorts; the night weaver.
The setting is fantastically creepy; the house in particular with its remote, forest setting and mysterious hole through the floor into the basement. The higher-level small town setting also gives a great sense of isolation.
The prose is dramatic while still concise, and the dialogue is engaging.
The sheriff is an intriguing protagonist. A man who wants to do good, but is also racked with guilt over his past failings.
If I had one complaint, the story shows its hand too soon; a little mystery would have gone a long way. This reduces everything after the first few chapters to a "will they survive" predicament. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but leaving a few reveals until later would have been a major improvement.
If you like a body horror, this one's worth checking out.
The house is infested with parasitic spiders which turn their victims into zombie-like creatures. These are led by an "alpha zombie" of sorts; the night weaver.
The setting is fantastically creepy; the house in particular with its remote, forest setting and mysterious hole through the floor into the basement. The higher-level small town setting also gives a great sense of isolation.
The prose is dramatic while still concise, and the dialogue is engaging.
The sheriff is an intriguing protagonist. A man who wants to do good, but is also racked with guilt over his past failings.
If I had one complaint, the story shows its hand too soon; a little mystery would have gone a long way. This reduces everything after the first few chapters to a "will they survive" predicament. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but leaving a few reveals until later would have been a major improvement.
If you like a body horror, this one's worth checking out.
October 13, 2023
Brian Berry is great, but this book is not it.
Night Weaver felt like only half a book. You know those novels where half the story is the main group of characters and the other half is the sheriff/police? Well, this book was only the sheriff. At the end there were some random character deaths sprinkled in but those characters were just introduced that chapter for the sake of being killed.
The concept is actually pretty creepy but I didn’t care because there were no interesting characters and I don’t always want to read about sheriffs.
Night Weaver felt like only half a book. You know those novels where half the story is the main group of characters and the other half is the sheriff/police? Well, this book was only the sheriff. At the end there were some random character deaths sprinkled in but those characters were just introduced that chapter for the sake of being killed.
The concept is actually pretty creepy but I didn’t care because there were no interesting characters and I don’t always want to read about sheriffs.
November 12, 2023
Good scary story
Good scare but long on words. I get that horror requires descriptive talent by an author. But this was too much wording. Like firing off the Thesaurus every sentence at times. Started to glaze over it became so unnecessary. The story plot is great. Liked the characters too. Just didn't need all of the long descriptions to such a degree. He stated at the beginning that it was originally a short story. Should have kept it that way. Again, it is a good scary story. Not sure I would recommend it though.
Good scare but long on words. I get that horror requires descriptive talent by an author. But this was too much wording. Like firing off the Thesaurus every sentence at times. Started to glaze over it became so unnecessary. The story plot is great. Liked the characters too. Just didn't need all of the long descriptions to such a degree. He stated at the beginning that it was originally a short story. Should have kept it that way. Again, it is a good scary story. Not sure I would recommend it though.
December 30, 2022
Laughable
This book was laughable rubbish and badly written. The author keep adding big words when normal words would do. One chapter containing a sec screen sounded like the dialogue of an adolescent boy rather than a grown man it made me laugh which it wasn't meant to. Good try but not original subject
This book was laughable rubbish and badly written. The author keep adding big words when normal words would do. One chapter containing a sec screen sounded like the dialogue of an adolescent boy rather than a grown man it made me laugh which it wasn't meant to. Good try but not original subject
May 11, 2023
I saw Arachnophobia 30+ years ago and it scared me. I watched it again I think a few months ago and it seemed tame to this book. This book is horrific, the author describes the spiders almost like Alien spiders from the cosmos. The way the come and devour you is like a tidalwave of destruction. I would hate to meet these spiders.
June 25, 2025
Get your boots out these spiders need to be stomped, but will that be enough?!
Great book! Pulse pounding action gruesome kills and lots and lots of spiders! Brian Berry doesn’t disappoint! Can’t wait to read another of his!
Great book! Pulse pounding action gruesome kills and lots and lots of spiders! Brian Berry doesn’t disappoint! Can’t wait to read another of his!
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