How did Cleo, beautiful Priestess of the Temple of Evil, corner the nation's wealth - without one iota of criminal evidence against her? Could the Faceless Cavalier, who invented the Withering Death, have been her slave - or her overlord? Only the Spider knew the answers... and Richard Wentworth lay in a coma imprisoned in a cell! Norvell W. Page churned out Spider sagas for three white-hot years, then dropped from sight in the middle of the four-part Living Pharaoh series, not to return until 1937. No one today can say exactly what happened. But rumors suggest a nervous breakdown of some kind. God knows, you could see it coming in his alter ego, Richard Wentworth.... Other writers stepped in to take up the slack. But Norvell W. Page refused to remain out of action for long. Like the Spider, his inborn sense of duty compelled him to return, where lesser writers who were his contemporaries, were falling by the wayside trying to keep up with the deadline demands of the Spider's pulpy competition. "There was a time when the burden of writing yet one more Spider seemed too much to undertake," Page subsequently wrote. "But I never feel that way anymore. I know now that the Spider actually does help people; that there are those who appreciate his idealism even though it is expressed in violence." Nick Santa Maria reads The Gentleman From Hell with the crackling intensity you have come to expect of his superb talent. Originally published in The Spider magazine, March, 1942. Chapter 1: Faceless Doom Chapter 2: The Lovely Ladies Chapter 3: Judas Kiss Chapter 4: The Hidden Wound Chapter 5: Die in Agony! Chapter 6: The Other Road Chapter 7: The Spider Strikes! Chapter 8: Caught Chapter 9: A Web Is Woven Chapter 10: The Fly Escapes Chapter 11: Blind Murder Chapter 12: Invasion of Hell Chapter 13: The Wasting Death Chapter 14: The Spider's Inferno Chapter 15: The Cat Is Away Chapter 16: Law for the Lawless Chapter 17: Death Dance Chapter 18: Face of the Faceless