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Cover Story
Our cover this month features Asterix. To mark the 25th anniversary of Asterix in Britain, Hodder &Stoughton are giving the books a brand new look and releasing two omnibus editions. We are most grateful to Hodder & Stoughton for their help in using this illustration by Albert Uderzo.
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Consider this: four girls with names as mundane as Brittany and Sierra stay for a long weekend in the strangely deserted New Arcadia Inn. Inexplicable accidents befall them and curious noises emanate from above their room. Tessa is arachnophobic, but during a game of Truth or Dare the four girls become trapped in the attic at the mercy of a giant spider called Fluffy who is taken on nightly walks by the hotel's owner, Sebastian. (Really!) All the girls die - three are wound in spider's web cocoons and Tessa plunges to her death from the attic window. Sadly, Nick, 'a good-looking guy . . . with wavy chestnut-coloured hair, dark blue eyes and a shy smile', is unable to save her. In the words of Brittany, that 'tall, slim redhead with the brittle personality' - Chill Out!