"The Spider and the Fly" and Other Poems

Adaptations

The Spider and the Fly lobby card1907 cartoon, 'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly. Railroad tycoon E. H. Harriman is depicted as a fly on a spider web labeled "The Law," subject to the control of the Interstate Commerce Commission, depicted here as the spider.
Cinema
  • 1916 film featuring Robert B. Mantell[6]
  • 1949 British crime film
  • 1923 cartoon: theatrical short by Aesop Fables Studio.[7]
Music
  • 1930 song by Barbecue Bob
  • 1938 song by Fats Waller, Andy Razaf, and J. C. Johnson
  • 1965 song by The Rolling Stones
  • 1989 song by The Cure ("Lullaby") references the poem
Illustration
  • An illustrated version by Tony DiTerlizzi[8] was a 2003 Caldecott Honor Book.

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