団鬼六幻想夫人

　　《蜘蛛男》是“江戶川亂步作品集”第七卷。故事開頭，怪紳士稻桓租下了一間事務所，把它重新裝修成美術藝品店。第二天開業時聘用了一名十八歲的美少女，但當天晚上就奸殺了這名少女。接下來的幾天內報紙社會版頭條陸續刊登了“碎尸案”、“美人魚案”。民間犯罪學者畔柳博士接手此案，在與藍胡子稻桓正面交鋒的過程中屢屢敗下陣來，直到環游歸來的明智加入偵破陣營……，故事從讀者預測不到的角度展開，是一部名探與殺人狂的斗智故事。

 故事開始于十六世紀初，因為皇后凱瑟琳（賓妮·巴尼斯 Binnie Barnes 飾）無法生育，英國國王亨利八世（查爾斯·勞頓 Charles Laughton 飾）同她離婚，另娶了名為恩尼（梅爾·奧勃朗 Merle Oberon 飾）的女子為皇后，哪知道野心勃勃的恩尼整天盤算著推翻丈夫的統治自立為王，當她的陰謀敗露之后，亨利八世親手將她送上了斷頭臺。恩尼死后，亨利八世娶了奇恩（溫迪·巴里 Wendy Barrie 飾）為妻，哪知道在生產時，奇恩因為難產而死，只留下了一個可憐的嬰兒威爾斯（邁爾斯·曼德 Miles Mander 飾）。之后，大臣們想要國王迎娶德國公主，可這一次，國王駁回了大臣們的請求。

　　勞倫茲曾是百老匯作詞家第一把交椅，卻在與理查德拆伙后事業跌落低谷。前搭檔新作的首演之夜，他故作大方獻上祝福，新仇舊恨交織下，終究不歡而散；他轉向忘年好友伊麗莎白尋找慰藉，又不禁懷疑友達以上的關系是否只是自作多情。偌大派對就像如今的百老匯，早已沒他的容身之處。過了今晚，美國音樂劇的黃金年代就要展開，他的盛世卻再也回不來，當最后一曲〈藍月〉響起，即便成了終曲，也要忘情歌頌。

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...