The Lair of the White Worm
In the English countryside, an ancient evil stirs beneath a sinister estate, where the beautiful, cold-blooded Lady Arabella March harbors a monstrous secret connected to a primeval white worm dwelling in a bottomless pit. Stoker’s final novel is a strange, feverish tale of Gothic horror, mesmerism, and lurking prehistoric menace. Lurid and dreamlike, it pits a young heir against forces of ancient malignity in a story dripping with dread and grotesque imagery. A curious and unsettling capstone to Stoker’s career, The Lair of the White Worm blends folklore, horror, and the uncanny, offering a bizarre and memorable descent into supernatural terror from the creator of Dracula.
About the Author
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish writer and, for nearly three decades, business manager of London’s Lyceum Theatre. Though he wrote several novels and short-story collections, his reputation rests entirely on Dracula, whose blend of folklore, travelogue, and Victorian dread has never gone out of…
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