His best known work is without doubt the short novel "Die Schwarze Spinne" (The Black Spider), a semi-allegorical tale of the plague in form of the titular monster that devastates a Swiss valley community; first as a result of a pact with the devil born out of need and a second time due to the moral decay that releases the monster from its prison again.
h ɪ z WORD_BOUNDARY b ɛ s t WORD_BOUNDARY n oʊ n WORD_BOUNDARY w ɜː k WORD_BOUNDARY ɪ z WORD_BOUNDARY w ɪ ð aʊ t WORD_BOUNDARY d aʊ t WORD_BOUNDARY ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY ʃ ɔ ɹ t WORD_BOUNDARY n ɑ v ə l WORD_BOUNDARY d aɪ WORD_BOUNDARY ʃ w ɔ ɹ z WORD_BOUNDARY s p ɪ n WORD_BOUNDARY ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY b l æ k WORD_BOUNDARY s p aɪ d ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY s ɛ m aɪ æ l ɪ ɡ ɔ ɹ ɪ k ə l WORD_BOUNDARY t eɪ l WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ v ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY p l eɪ ɡ WORD_BOUNDARY ɪ n WORD_BOUNDARY f ɔ ɹ m WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ v ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY t ɪ t̠ʃ ə l ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY m ɔ n s t ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY ð æ t WORD_BOUNDARY d ɛ v ɪ s t eɪ t s WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY s w ɪ s WORD_BOUNDARY v æ l i WORD_BOUNDARY k ə m j uː n ɪ t i WORD_BOUNDARY f ɜː s t WORD_BOUNDARY æ z WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY ɹ ɪ z ʌ l t WORD_BOUNDARY ə v ə WORD_BOUNDARY p æ k t WORD_BOUNDARY w ɪ ð ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY d ɛ v ə l WORD_BOUNDARY b ɔ ɹ n WORD_BOUNDARY aʊ t ə v WORD_BOUNDARY n iː d WORD_BOUNDARY æ n d WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY s ɛ k ə n d WORD_BOUNDARY t aɪ m WORD_BOUNDARY d uː WORD_BOUNDARY t ə WORD_BOUNDARY ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY m ɔ ɹ ə l WORD_BOUNDARY d ɪ k eɪ WORD_BOUNDARY ð æ t WORD_BOUNDARY ɹ ɪ l iː s ɪ z WORD_BOUNDARY ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY m ɔ n s t ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY f ɹ ʌ m WORD_BOUNDARY ɪ t s WORD_BOUNDARY p ɹ ɪ z ə n WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ ɡ ɛ n WORD_BOUNDARY