Medusa's Web

A new Tim Powers book is always worth reading. One of the most original fantasists around, he doesn't compromise. For this book he has invented an entirely new occult technique and a whole subculture around it, but doesn't give the reader an obvious way in. For the first fifty to a hundred pages you'll be scratching your head but the effort pays off. Once you get to grips with the spiders, this becomes a gripping ghost story (sort of) and haunted house tale (kind of). It's not as good as his masterpiece Last Call, but then very few books are. Still highly recommended