The Lair Of The White Worm

by Bram Stoker

Overview

Something evil is lurking under the ground in Diana’s Grove. Summoned by his great-uncle, Richard Salton, Adam Salton travels to Lesser Hill, Mercia, only to find himself surrounded by evil. Be it the Castra Regis’s mesmeric assault on Lilla Watford, a child’s mysterious wounds, the lady Arabella March’s murder of Oolanga, or the terrifying white worm that dwells in a pit in Arabella’s house, Adam must work quickly to save himself and the other inhabitants of the area.

Also known as The Garden of Evil, The Lair of the White Worm was originally published in 1911, just one year before Bram Stoker’s death. It has been adapted for film.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443415699
Publisher:	HarperCollins Canada
Publication date:	03/06/2012
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	133
File size:	753 KB

About the Author

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) grew up in Ireland listening to his mother's tales of blood-drinking fairies and vampires rising from their graves. He later managed the Lyceum Theatre in London and worked as a civil servant, newspaper editor, reporter, and theater critic. Dracula, his best-known work, was published in 1897 and is hailed as one of the founding pieces of Gothic literature.

 

Editorial Reviews

With the jaunty ease of a favorite uncle holding forth before a crackling fire, narrator Matt Addis recounts this wild tale revolving around a gentleman who returns home to his ancestral manor only to discover that there is a mythical giant worm lurking in an underground cave below it. He soon finds that the beautiful but coldly manipulative widow next door, who has unwanted romantic designs on him, is about to do away with her surly African servant, who has unwanted romantic designs on her and plans to unleash the worm. Since its publication in 1911, critics throughout the years have roundly panned Stoker's (of DRACULA fame) final novel as clumsy, underdeveloped, and racially problematic. Still, with Addis's cheerful delivery this early horror remains eerily diverting. B.P. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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