You could almost say I SMERSHed it...
Just looked up to discover a motherfuckingly huge spider on the wall. Made brave attempt to capture it with stand-by spider-capturing kit (despite having no trousers on) but succeeded only in the equivalent of stamping on its foot. It ran behind a stack of books. I lifted a couple off. It glowered at me from behind a copy of Stormbreaker. Hah. Chalk one more reluctant kill up to Mr Rider thar...*shudders*