The Lair Of The White Worm Revised

In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim...

BRAM STOKER

First published in the year 1911, renowned British writer Bram Stoker's novel 'The Lair of the White Worm' is one of his best horror fictions. The novel is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.

An ancient legend holds the locals in a quiet rural part of England in terror. For hundreds of years the legendary White Worm has been blamed for the disappearances of countless people's and attacks on cattle. Is the creature real? What can it really be? And does it have help from human servants? Very soon, the hunt is on for the Lair of the White Worm. Bram Stoker's classic novel has been adapted many times for the screen, stage and radio with Ken Russell's 1988 movie, which starred Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Donohoe, probably the best known. In the 1920s, Stoker edited his novel, excising several chapters. This is his revised version.

Reproduction of the original.

In 1925 a highly abridged and rewritten[clarification needed] form was published.[3] 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.[4]The Lair of the White Worm was very loosely adapted by Ken Russell into a 1988 film of the same name.The first episode of the German radio drama "Die Schwarze Sonne", produced by the label LAUSCH, is loosely based on the events of The Lair of the White Worm.[5] The main characters of the radio drama are also based on the protagonists of the novel and feature in the rest of the episodes even though the plot turns away from Stoker's original story.