Two-Sentence Horror Stories

[LSLGuy]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

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My young son hollered to me from the living room, asking how many legs spiders have and how large they can get. When I answered him, he casually exclaimed, “Oh, well, that’s not a spider.”

See also:

What animals would be more dangerous if enlarged?

Although some extant exoskeleton land critters get a bunch bigger than @Charlie_Tan’s mongo grasshopper. See here for some recent Doperish exoskeleton-equipped drama:

Spoilered for potentially alarming visual once you actually go to the link. Expanding the spoiler is safe.

<a href="https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-caught-an-amazonian-giant-centipede-in-our-vacation-house/982249"> We caught an Amazonian Giant Centipede in our vacation house</a>