Arachnophobia anyone?

This evening during a nap, approximately sundown, I was stirred by mother getting home from work. I rose from bed, turned on the fanlight and immediately became transfixed by a seeming gossamer-string climbing insect that I identified as a spider. Black with monstrous legs two inches in length at least, this was a formidable creature. Flabbergasted, (under my breath) I blurted it out "What the fuck is that!" - puzzlement, befuddlement, and general delirium ensued as I watched the creature make a hideous scuttling noise. An invisible terror ran through my spinal column. Within seconds the spider was out of sight. I stared, wondering where it had gone to hide. I could not see a feasible hiding spot anywhere near the top of the stack of shoe-boxes where Arach had climbed.