Over the tabernacle meeting rose the old man's shout, "This is a phony religion, you dumb psalm-singers! There is only one true religion, and that is - "Then, horrified, incredulous, the victimized worshipers beheld that defiant figure suddenly snuffed out in fire and smoke. For a new hysteria was sweeping the nation - headed by one who called himself the reincarnation of Zoroaster. His god was the Fire God, and men must pay tribute in money and adoration - or die! Hundreds perished in flames, and the police were paralyzed. It was Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, who took up the trail of the flame-master - to lock grips with the greatest murder-menace that men had seen since the time of ancient priests and human sacrifice! The Spider and the Fire God is torn from the pages of the August, 1939 issue of The Spider magazine.