Julian MacLaren Ross's novella Bitten by the Tarantula (ISBN 0948238321) collected together with a selection of his short fiction, unfinished longer fiction, essays on cinema, essays on literature and book reviews, and his literary parodies. Julian MacLaren-Ross ( July 7[[ 912]] - November 3 1964) was a British novelist described by John Betjeman as "One of our very best writers"