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- 1985 Doubleday first edition hardcover
- Crossroad Press digital and trade paperback edition
Horror
The Worms
1985 · Doubleday
Centuries ago in colonial Massachusetts, a coven buried an unspeakable evil deep within an iron casket. In modern times the coastal town of Province builds a municipal toxic waste dump over the forgotten burial ground, cracking the seal. When Felicity Cramer returns home with her fiancé Paul, she finds her brother Jeremy hospitalized after an attack at the dump — and watches his flesh dissolve into a pale, undulating larva. With poisonous fog cutting off the roads and the mutating townspeople setting the village ablaze, a handful of survivors make a stand against an unholy infestation.
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