The Lair of the White Worm is a 1988 supernatural comedy horror film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell. The film stars Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi. Lo
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Russell incorporated elements of the English folktale of the Lambton Worm into the screenplay.
Russell originally offered the part of Lady Sylvia Marsh to Tilda Swinton (pictured), but she declined.
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The Lair of the White Worm is a Gothic horror novel and dark fantasy novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 – the year before Stoker's death –
The Lair of the White Worm (film)
…and directed by Ken Russell. The film stars Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi. Loosely based on the 1911 Bram Stoker novel of the same name, its plot follows the residents in and around a rural English manor that are tormented by an ancient priestess after the skull of a serpent that she…
Cover of the first edition
1911 illustration by Pamela Colman Smith, facing page 60 in the first edition
1911 illustration by Smith, facing page 86 in the first edition
1911 illustration by Pamela Colman Smith, facing page 100 in the first edition