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Today I’m happy to have The Way Of The Worm by Ramsey Campbell on behalf of Random Things Tours. Thanks to Anne Cater and Flame Tree Press for the copy of the book to take part today.

The present day, or something very like it. Dominic Sheldrake has retired from lecturing and lives on his own. His son Toby is married with a small daughter. The occultist Noble family are more active than ever. Their cult now openly operates as the Church of the Eternal Three, and has spread worldwide. The local branch occupies the top floors of Starview Tower, a Liverpool waterfront skyscraper. To Dominic’s dismay, Toby and his wife Claudine are deeply involved in it, and he suspects they are involving their small daughter Macy too.

Dominic lets his son persuade him to attend a meeting of the church, where he encounters all three generations of the Nobles. Although Christian Noble is almost a century old, he’s more vigorous than ever – inhumanly so. The family takes turns to preach an apocalyptic sermon that hints at dark secrets masked by the Bible and at the future that lies in wait. In a bid to investigate further Dominic undergoes the rite the church offers its members, which confers the ability to travel psychically through time. Before he’s able to flee back to the present he has a vision of the monstrous fate that’s in store for the world.

Dominic discovers a secret he’s sure the Nobles won’t want to be made public. Although he has retired from the police, Jim helps him establish the truth, and Roberta publishes it on her online blog. It’s the subject of a court case, the results of which seem to defeat the Nobles, only for them to return in a dreadfully transformed shape. Now Dominic and his friends are at their mercy, and is there anywhere in the world to hide? Even if they manage somehow to deal with the Nobles, there may be no escaping or preventing the alien apocalypse that all the events of the trilogy have been bringing ever closer…

The Way of the Worm is the third book in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. I am lucky enough to have read the full trilogy and this is a truly stunning conclusion.

Dominic Sheldrake is now retired and his son, Toby is married and has a child. To Dominic’s horror Toby and his wife are leaders with the Nobles in the Church of the Eternal Three. Dominic has always made it his business to attempt to keep the world safe from the Noble family’s unorthodox religious views throughout the series. The Way Of The Worm shows the reader his final try at thwarting the Noble family once and for all. Ramsey Campbell has definitely written a satisfying end to this trilogy.

I was looking forward to this book after the previous books and I couldn’t wait to see what was in store for Dominic this time. The pace is quite slow, but as the story develops the pace begins to speed along with the feelings of horror, dread and the overall creepiness of the story.

Ramsey Campbell has definitely got a new fan of his type of horror stories. I have found this such an absorbing series and the conclusion to this book was fabulous and crammed with cosmic horror. I will be watching out for books from this author from now on.