Illustrator Edward Gorey at his finest with this cover for an out-of-print paperback from 1959, Nineteenth Century German Tales.
Here is a PDF of the cover story, "The Black Spider," by Jeremias Gotthelf, written in 1842.
Beautiful 1959 Edward Gorey book cover featuring a giant flaming spider
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