College of Cruelty

From publisher blurb: A Multiverse of Malice The multiverse is home to innumerable worlds. Perhaps the most unsettling are worlds that bear a striking similarity to our own world but are utterly alien in their disparity. Within such a world is the College of Cruelty, a network of institutes suspended on the strands of a continent-sized web. The resident scholars are man-faced spiders the size of horses, pursuing knowledge without regard for safety, sanctity, or sanity. These Arachnademics are eager to acquire new specimens for study, and they do not solicit consent.