The Lair of the White Worm

by Bram Stoker

Also known as The Garden of Evil, is a horror novel. It was originally published in 1911, the year before Stoker's death. In 1925, it was abridged from forty chapters, down to twenty-eight, with editorial revisions. It was later adapted into a film in 1988 by Ken Russell. The plot focuses on Adam Salton, originally from Australia, who is contacted by his grand-uncle, Richard Salton, in 1860 England for the purpose of establishing a relationship between these last two members of the family. His grand-uncle wants to make Adam his heir. Adam travels to Richard Salton's house in Mercia, Lesser Hill, and quickly finds himself in the centre of mysterious and inexplicable occurrences