Songfacts®:

• In a spoken epilogue at the end of this track, Cooper makes reference to Stephen, a character who featured on his 1975 album Welcome To My Nightmare.
• Cooper co-produced Along Came A Spider along with Danny Saber and Greg Hampton. Saber, who is best known for his role as member and producer of Black Grape, has worked with a number of other artists, including the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, and David Bowie.
• The album is about a fictional serial killer named Spider, who wraps his victims in a silk web. But, upon meeting his last victim, he falls in love with her and cannot kill to complete his plan. Alice explained to Billboard magazine: "Every song is sort of a letter to the police. They think they're investigating it from the outside, but he's actually woven them into the whole thing."
• Alice Cooper told The Sun November 1, 2007 how the Spider character emerged as he wrote the album: "Sometimes, as a lyricist, you don't realise everything you're writing over a period is in a certain vein. After I got done writing six songs, I realised Spider was actually a character - and he was a serial killer. He started emerging from the songs and getting more defined."