The Lair of the White Worm

Author(s): Bram Stoker

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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[clarification needed] form was published. 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.

General Information

  • : 9780008110505
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.125
  • : 01 January 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 March 2015
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Bram Stoker
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : FIC
  • : 224

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Bram (Abraham) Stoker was an Irish novelist, born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. 'Dracula' was to become his best-known work, based on European folklore and stories of vampires. Although most famous for writing 'Dracula', Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912 at the age of sixty-four.