![]() ![]() Oolanga isn’t actually very important to the story, but he is one of the most notable parts of the book. It’s around this point that Oolanga, Edgar’s servant, is introduced to the story. ![]() She’s an awkward weirdo, and it quickly becomes apparent that she wants to marry Edgar for his land. When Adam is on his way to meet Edgar for the first time, he bumps into Lady Arabella March. Adam arrives just before Edgar, another foreign chap who is also returning to his family’s ancestral home. They have no other living family, and the uncle wishes to leave his land to his nephew. I might be mistaken on a few points, but I’m confident this is pretty close to what Stoker actually wrote:Īdam, an Australian lad, is summoned to England by his great uncle. I read the original 40 chapter version of the text, not the more widely available, 28 chapter, abridged version from 1925.įirst off, I want to provide a summary of what I understood of the story. I put it off for a while, but in early December I pulled up my socks and read this crazy mess. I love Dracula, but Stoker’s worm book has the reputation of being one of the worst horror novels ever written. ![]() Bram Stoker, author of horror classic Dracula, published his The Lair of the White Worm in 1911. The 1980s saw a veritable boom of worm horror, but this niche genre had been around for a while before that. ![]()
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