Can you identify this critter?

I discovered this uninvited guest--I don't know what the heck it is--lurking in the casing of my living room curtain this afternoon. He or she is about the length of my little finger, has barbed mandible-looking appendages, antennae as long as its body and something that resembles a stinger on it's hind end. It could have packed off Baby C on its back. These things don't go away with a spritz of Raid or the swat of a rolled-up magazine. N captured it with a lid and cup and L was happy to inspect it and set it free outside. I am so ready to leave the south and all its big, crusty bugs. Ick! GamizOne, please tell me there are no scary bugs in our new fair city.