Wormfood - Softcover

Jacobson, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605421014 ISBN 13: 9781605421018

Publisher: Medallion Press, 2010

Synopsis

In the poor, isolated town of Whitewood, California, 16-year-old Arch Stanton has a bad job at the local bar and grill that is about to get much worse and, despite his skills with firearms, he may not survive the weekend. Arch’s boss, Fat Ernst, would do anything for a chance at easy money, and when he forces Arch to do some truly dirty work, all hell breaks loose. Suddenly, the customers infected by vicious, wormlike parasites begin dying in agonizing pain. As events spiral out of control, decades of bitter rivalries resurface and boil over into three days of rapidly escalating carnage.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Jacobson is a fiction and screenwriting professor at Columbia College–Chicago. His stories have appeared in Doorways Magazine and Read by Dawn volumes one and three. He lives near Chicago.

From Booklist:

Over the decades, horror fiction has featured some very unsavory creatures, from swamp things to zombies, but never have they been more unappetizing than the ravenous worms infesting Jacobson’s debut horror novel. Life for dirt-poor, trailer-dwelling teen Arch Stanton is a daily grind. When he’s not mopping the floor in Fat Ernst’s ramshackle restaurant, he’s riding around in a pickup truck doing odd jobs with the trash-talking, redneck Sawyer brothers. But things are about to get much worse when the truck plows into a hearse bearing the corpse of a local rancher, pitching the dismembered body into a ditch along with some nasty, white foot-long worms. Then Fat Ernst sends Arch and the brothers on a midnight run to poach a dead steer from a fetid pool, and the worms wind up in the cheeseburgers and bellies of the restaurant’s prominent gun-toting patrons, with mayhem the result. While Jacobson devotes more ink to stomach-turning imagery than to genuinely fear-inducing scenarios, fans of his particular brand of gross-out horror will relish it. --Carl Hays

About this edition

• Publisher: Medallion Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1605421014
• ISBN 13: 9781605421018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245