Slither

The trichinosis worm is one of nature’s most revolting parasites. Certain types of this tiny worm alter a host’s DNA by injecting a virus which mutates the reproductive system. This forces the host to bear the worm’s young. Typically these worms are never longer than a few millimeters. But guess what? Now there’s a subspecies that’s thirty feet long...When Nora and her team arrive at the island, she expects a routine zoological excursion...but it doesn’t take her long to realize they’re not alone. Are her lurid sexual dreams making her paranoid...or is she being watched? The dead bodies they find are bad enough, but then her own team members begin to disappear, and when they return, they’ve...changed. Indeed, there are other people on the island...along with something else far worse.

From the Publisher

Horror master Edward Lee takes the good old Nature Runs Amok theme and turns it on its ear with a shocking new vision of horror, outrageous but all-too-real characters, and a roundhouse of plot twists, cliffhangers, and big surprises. This is Lee’s 17th mass-market novel, and like all of his stories, he takes every element to the max, to deliver a demented joyride of edgy eroticism, creepy suspense, and scream-in-your-face thrills and chills.

About the Author

Edward Lee has been published at Zebra, Berkley, Cemetery Dance, and Necro Publications. Dorchester is now his exclusive paperback publisher. Lee was one of the co-founders of the Splatterpunk movement in horror and is one of the most influential writers in the genre today. Several of his short stories have been nominated for HWA's Bram Stoker Award, such as 1994's Mr. Torso. He has also received many preliminary nominations for HWA's Best Novel Stoker, including both Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman (1998) and Sacrifice (1995).

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