SILK, A Rider's Hunger

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Every feeder gets eaten in the end. Skarn means to make sure it’s somebody else. In the Threadwoods, the goblins of the Blacktooth live on the rims of deep sinkholes and feed the giant spiders that let them stay. The riders get the glory. The feeders carry the meat down the silk ladders, and some of them don’t climb back up. Skarn has been a feeder for twelve summers. He is still alive because he watches the spiders’ legs, counts the days since they last ate, and always knows who is standing closest when the queen gets hungry. Then the dwarves come east for silver. They bring oil, smoke and a shield wall that does not break. In one morning the drops burn, the riders die on the shields, and the old queen falls. Down in the smoke, at the bottom of the Long Drop, one egg is left. It is red. Skarn takes it. What hatches knows only one goblin by his smell. With her, a starving clan and no home to go back to, Skarn finds the one thing the Blacktooth still have to sell: their spiders’ hunger. A starved spider is good for one charge. The trick is choosing who pays for it, and when. SILK is grimdark war fantasy from the bottom of the food chain. It’s brutal and darkly funny, and it’s told by three voices: a feeder with a long memory, the girl who learns to fear him, and the dwarf captain who swears to finish what he started. Book One of the Black Web. Set forty years before FODDER and The Long Harvest, and readable on its own. Duration - 9h 40m. Author - ELias Marsh. Narrator - Digital Voice Alistair G. Published Date - Tuesday, 13 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Elias Marsh ©.