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Author: John Wyndham
 
The Island of Tanakuatua is cursed. Stolen from its original inhabitants by colonial trickery, their medicine-man cast his strongest magic upon it, damning the land and any who might try to live there, swearing by his own death and by the totem of his clan, the spider, that they would suffer and perish . . .
The settler's dream is to build a perfect society; a remote pacific island is the place they intend to make it real. But it isn't the blank slate the utopian pioneers are expecting. Because radioactive dust from a nearby atomic test-blast has fallen on the island, adding the strength of a very modern curse to a primitive one. Though the lush vegetation seems unaffected, the spiders have changed. And they are hungry, numerous and surprisingly well organised . . .
 
PENGUIN BOOKS 1980 REPRINT
ISBN: 9780140053388