Book cover for Kingdom of the Conqueror Worm by Nathan Ballingrud

Kingdom of the Conqueror Worm

2027 Released
96 Pages
1-2 Hours
Ebook Available September 14, 2027
Audiobook Unavailable
Paperback Available September 14, 2027
Hardback Unavailable
Tor NightfireISBN 9781250347718

The concluding chapter of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Lunar Gothic trilogy, Kingdom of the Conqueror Worm brings Dr. Cull face to face with the deranged horror he has unleashed upon the solar system.

Kingdom of the Conqueror Worm, the concluding chapter of the Lunar Gothic trilogy, finds Dr. Cull serving as the doctor aboard a prison vessel that is drifting, powerless, beyond the solar system. Their wayward path takes them by the as-yet-undiscovered Pluto and its haunted moon, Charon.

Locked in orbit around Charon is a mausoleum ship, onto which Cull and the other crew members are able to escape the doomed prison ship. The mausoleum ship is holding thousands of corpses of unknown providence, and is stalked by the mysterious Worm Priest. It is in these halls, among the whispers and dreams of the dead, that Cull will come to a final reckoning with the Moon Spider and his own demented obsessions.

Lunar Gothic Trilogy
Crypt of the Moon Spider (Winner, Bram Stoker Award)
Cathedral of the Drowned
Kingdom of the Conqueror Worm

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Nathan Ballingrud

Nathan Ballingrud is the author of The Strange, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, and North American Lake Monsters. He's twice won the Shirley Jackson Award, and has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Locus Awards. His stories have been adapted into the Hulu limited series Monsterland and the film Wounds. He lives in Asheville, NC.

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