HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SUCH A FREAK? [EIGHT-LEGGED, THAT IS]

Congratulations to the great Bob Dylan on this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Earlier this very week I had been singing along with “Like a Rolling Stone” in my truck and thinking what a really great poem it is. Nice to know I was right.

Anyway, in honor of one of Dylan’s less-celebrated works, his 1971 stream-of-consciousness tome Tarantula…

Monster-of-the-Week: ...here’s one of our favorites, the title character of Jack Arnold’s 1957 Tarantula…