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Billy Spider Cricket

by Gallery of Ghouls

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"A lonely and bullied kid formed a friendship with the spider crickets that lived in his basement, teaching them to survive by eating the corpse of a dead rat. He conceived a ghoulish plan to get even with his tormentors by luring them through the streets of town on a summer evening entrapping them downstairs for his insect friends to gruesomely feast on. In the end Billy got his revenge."

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Billy was a kid who kept to himself he lived in a house up on the hill. His parents were gamblers who were never around he was often on his own in his giant home.
Spending time in the basement to pass his boredom one day he found the corpse of a rat being eaten by some bugs that didn't really know about, he learned very quickly what they really were.
They call them spider crickets and they're from across the world an invasive creature that had made their way to become
Billy's friends on that very day, so he wouldn’t stay alone
in his empty home.

There were kids in the town that like to beat him up, bully him around and treat him really rough. Then one day he had a bright idea he would show those kids the meaning fear.
For he taught his little friends how to chew up bones and eat the eyeballs of a rotting corpse until their appetite had grown insane, they were trained to kill to get what they need but they never turned on their master friend "Billy Spider Cricket" who he was to them. So, he lured those bullies to chase him through the streets and up to his house on a summer eve.

The boys ran down the concrete steps through doors on the ground by the side of his house what they didn’t really know it was a trap for them as Billy shut the doors locking them in.

In the dark they could feel them jumping on their skin and biting through their eyes was a gruesome way to die.
Thousands of the bugs crawling over them being eaten alive with nowhere to hide.
The four boys screamed but no one could hear except for Billy laughing at their fear. He admitted what he did and turned himself in, telling the police with a crooked grin.
When the cops arrived they found the chewed-up bodies still in the basement being eaten by his buddies. The shocking scene was the very worst thing that ever went down in this little town.
And to this day Billy sits quietly waiting for his friends to come and break him free from the asylum where he is locked away, He knows they will be there someday.

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released May 20, 2022
Joe Ghoul - Lyrics, Music, Vocals & Production
Recorded @ The Moon House, Stony Brook NY

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Gallery of Ghouls Stony Brook, New York

Gallery of Ghouls is influenced by stories, comics, movies, cryptids, tales and urban legends, featuring
characters and situations each with their own concept song or album. Each month a new song is released.

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