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The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker · 1911
Young Adam Salton returns from Australia to his family’s English estate. A mysterious green light over the ancient grove and strange disturbances across the fields unsettle the Cheshire countryside, drawing him and his neighbors toward a buried mystery at Castra Regis.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 27 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Cast: Principal Figures
Mimi and Lilla Watford with the Salton and Watford households
Adam Salton — Profile
The Meeting Aboard ShipAt Southampton, Adam and Richard greet one another aboard the ship that has brought Adam home.
The Eastern Brink at DawnOn an early walk, Adam and Sir Nathaniel study the ridges and hollows around Diana's Grove.
The Watfords of Mercy Farm
The Great Vale of Cheshire and the Peak
Castra RegisThe Caswall family seat crowns the higher hill above the neighboring country.
This edition
- Title
- The Lair of the White Worm
- Author
- Bram Stoker (1847–1912)
- First published
- 1911
- Illustrated plates
- 81 original artworks · 27 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 28 · about 55,282 words
- Reading time
- 3 h 41 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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