Maybe if I were a better housekeeper I wouldn't be so worried about brown recluses in every corner.

I find spiders very useful and even attractive so long as they are not swarming my ceiling and walls.

It's pretty much Romanticism, straight up, no chaser, although I found an odd ambiguity in it, which may just be me. Or maybe not.

It does kind of sound like the most Romantic thing ever. It doesn't stop being Romantic if you queer it; it just turns into Tanith Lee.