I have been eaten by the spider through the secret hole under the church, at least 3 times, and the achievement (Persistence) has still not dropped. I have gotten other achievements with no issues - any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

If you're playing 8-bit Adventure Anthology, then you're going to want to hear this! Beyond Shadowgate, in the style of the old 8-bit NES game is coming to Steam later this year! There's an announcement trailer here: https://youtu.be/x5LSE2kKvAo

Was looking at the achievements (and trophies on PS4 version). While the achievements entirely consisting of "How many different ways can you die" is pure dark humor, I feel that on top of them there should also be achievements/trophies for actually beating each game, with a gold trophy for each for the PS4 release and perhaps platinum for getting all trophies. Also, speaking of PS4, on top of adding extra trophies it'd be pretty sweet if this got a physical release through Limited Run Games since they...

Was there ever a volume 2 announced?

I remember these games, I'm sure I have them on diskette stored in a box with some old hardware too.