The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker
The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker
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The Lair of the White Worm

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Raphael Croft

Unabridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/26/2025

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm is a gothic horror novel blending supernatural terror, ancient evil, and Victorian anxiety. When Adam Salton discovers a mysterious female noblewoman living in isolation on a remote estate, he uncovers a dark secret: Lady Arabella March is a monstrous serpent-worshipping priestess, a centuries-old entity tied to a prehistoric white worm buried beneath the land. As gruesome deaths and eerie occurrences escalate, Salton teams with occult experts to confront the creature before it unleashes destruction. Fusing elements of folklore, vampirism, and cosmic horror, the novel is a wild, imaginative tale of good versus primordial evil. Less restrained than Dracula, it showcases Stoker’s flair for the grotesque and the uncanny in a uniquely bizarre and thrilling narrative.

About Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant, and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker studied math at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1867, after which he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a freelance journalist, a drama critic, and editor of the Evening Mail. In 1876, he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland, he published his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They married in 1878 and had one son, Noel, who was born in 1879. In England, Stoker also began writing a series of short stories and novels, the first of which was The Snake's Pass. Although best known for Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on August 14, 2024

There are many reasons that the word "disappointment" comes to mind when considering The Lair of the White Worm, not the least of which is that this is the final book written by Stoker the year before his death in 1912. I, also, don't consider it one of the worst novels ever written. I think the nov......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on June 28, 2012

This is indeed one strange little book, but I agree with no less a critic than H.P.Lovecraft when he says that the central idea--that of an ancient serpent who survives into the "modern" 19th century and exerts a malign influence on the living--is a good one. But the execution IS rather poorly done.......more

Goodreads review by Oscar on February 24, 2016

Adam Salton, un joven australiano, acepta la invitación de su tío abuelo para viajar a Inglaterra, concretamente a su finca de Lesser Hill. Además de para conocerse mejor, el señor Salton desea que Adam conozca de primera mano las leyendas y ruinas locales, entre las que destaca la historia de una p......more

Goodreads review by Lavinia on January 21, 2012

Written one year before Stoker's death and soon after one of his strokes, this one is a weird novel. With a strange set of characters that get involved in hair-rising adventures and afterwords talk about them like nothing out of the ordinary happened. Edgar Caswall develops a maddening obsession for......more

Goodreads review by Mari on October 24, 2020

No había oído nada de esta novela y cayó por casualidad en mis manos, ha sido una grata sorpresa,una tram que me ha enganchado desde el principio. Una novela gótica ideal para estas fechas. Muy recomendable.......more

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