the lair of the white worm     brom stoker The Lair of the White Worm also known as The Garden of Evil is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm The book was published in 1911 by Rider and Son in the UK the year before Stokers death with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith In 1925 it was republished in a highly abridged and rewritten form Over a hundred pages were removed the rewritten book having only twentyeight chapters instead of the original forty The final eleven chapters were cut down to only five leading some critics to complain that the ending was abrupt and inconsistent In 1988 it was very loosely adapted into a film by Ken Russell