The White Worm

[David Casseres]

Maybe this was all covered back in the MDGR, but I'm too old to
remember it.  And too tired to look it up in the Archives, sorry Doug.

Anyway, I just watched Ken Russell's movie "The Lair of the White
Worm," starring a ridiculously young Hugh Grant and Her Evilness
Amanda Donohoe.  All about the D'ampton Worm, from a novel by Bram
Stoker.  It's a compleat Hoot, vintage Ken Russell, totally over the
Top.  Comments on imdb say it's nothing like the novel, and I believe
it.

Came out in 1988, so it's probably an Influence on Our Guy's account
of the Lambton Worm.  Incidentally, the term "Worm" appears numerous
times in M&D outside of the context of the Lambton Worm; notably it's
a simile for slavery on p. 147, "the great Worm of Slavery."

The movie has a scene of a fine band singing a song about the Worm.  I
wish I could find out who they were, and if there's an available
recording.