| The Lair of the White Worm Annotated Contributor(s): Stoker, Bram (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798598011140 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.5 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911- the year before Stoker's death - with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.In 1925 a highly abridged and rewritten form was published by Foulsham. It was shortened by more than 100 pages, the rewritten book having only 28 chapters instead of the original 40. The final eleven chapters were cut down to only five, leading some critics to complain that the ending was abrupt and inconsistent.The central character of the book is Adam Salton, an Australian at the outset living there, who in 1860 is contacted by his elderly great-uncle, Richard Salton, a landed gentleman of Lesser Hill, Derbyshire, England, who has no other family and wants to establish a relationship with the only other living member of the Salton family... |
