Wolf Worm

<p><b>*THE INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER*</b><br><br><b>‘<i>Wolf Worm is going to burrow straight into your brain</i>’ – Cassandra Khaw, <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>The Library at Hellebore</i></b><br><br><b>Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in <i>Wolf Worm</i>, an original gothic masterpiece from <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author T. Kingfisher.</b><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><b>‘Only T. Kingfisher can write horror this lovely, even sweet, while simultaneously nauseating, grizzly, and revolting’ – Olivie Blake, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Atlas Six</i></b></p>