I took this sentence from Oxford Grammar:
In the bath was the biggest spider I had ever seen.
I had always thought that the construction there + be is united before reading this example. I would have thought it should be written like this:
In the bath, there was the biggest spider I had ever seen.
However, I'm not sure whether it's a typo that the book has or I've just misunderstood all this time.
Best Answer
In that construction "there" can be omitted, and often is.