Lair of the White Worm
"The sudden death of Lilla caused consternation among Mimi's friends and well-wishers. Such a tragedy was totally unexpected, as Adam and Sir Nathaniel had been expecting the White Worm's vengeance to fall upon themselves." On his arrival from Australia, Adam Salton discovers a gruesome mystery -...
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"The sudden death of Lilla caused consternation among Mimi's friends and well-wishers. Such a tragedy was totally unexpected, as Adam and Sir Nathaniel had been expecting the White Worm's vengeance to fall upon themselves." On his arrival from Australia, Adam Salton discovers a gruesome mystery - something on the estate of Castra Regis is feeding on human flesh. Has it something to do with Lady Arabella March, the strange, seductive woman who tore a mongoose apart with her bare hands and murdered an African Servant? Something is out there, deep in that forest, and its hunger won't be suppressed until it kills them all.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781907727030 (1907727035)
Publish date: April 19th 2010
Publisher: Bibliolis Books
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
I usually avoid abridged books like the plague, but I think I nonetheless ended up with an abridged version of Lair of the White Worm. Which is unfortunate. Or maybe not. It’s hard to tell whether this story would be made better or worse by expounding upon it. It starts with long-lost relatives me...
my rating: 4.5Goodreads challenges:2016 Choose Your Own Challenge:a book that you've seen the movie but haven't read the book.what did I think of it:for the last few days since I started I've been listing to it on audio book at loyalbooks.com and I actually enjoyed it a lot better then I thought I w...
But the worm got fat an' grewed an' grewed, An' grewed an aaful size; He'd greet big teeth, a greet big gob, An greet big goggly eyes. - C M Leumane, The Lambton Worm (1867)Bram Stoker, Irish author of the immortal classic Dracula, wrote The Lair of the White Worm a year before his death in 1912. a...
I read this as part of Dracula's Guest and Other Stories. The footnotes were better than the story.
It's hard to believe that the same author who wrote Dracula penned this one. Unbelievably bad plotting, where otherwise interesting characters do astoundingly stupid and ridiculous things just so that the author can have the ending he wanted. Just silly.
9 years ago
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