This is a very short short story that was almost certainly first published in some pulp science fiction magazine, I just can’t figure out precisely which one. “The Aab” is a classic “bad guy gets what’s coming to him” tale that would perhaps be particularly exciting for claustrophobes and people with a fear of insects. It was a pretty tame story for my purposes – just some quotidian misogyny, which is typical for this genre.

Original text: Project Gutenberg
My annotated text: web version
My annotated text: PDF version