Wolf Worm

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*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*<BR><BR>'Wolf Worm is going to burrow straight into your brain' - Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of The Library at Hellebore<BR><BR>Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, an original gothic masterpiece from Sunday Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher.<BR><BR>The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use.<BR><BR>But soon enough she finds that there are darker things at work in the Carolina woods.<BR><BR>What happened to her predecessor, Halder's wife?<BR><BR>Why are animals acting so strangely?<BR><BR>And what is behind the peculiar local whispers about 'blood thieves'?<BR><BR>With the aid of the housekeeper and a local healer, Sonia discovers that Halder's entomological studies have taken him down a dark road full of parasitic maggots that burrow into human flesh - and that his monstrous experiments may grow to encompass his newest illustrator...<BR><BR>'Only T. Kingfisher can write horror this lovely, even sweet, while simultaneously nauseating, grizzly, and revolting' - Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six