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* BalefulPolymorph: People pricked by the worms' stingers turn ''into'' giant worms themselves.
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* ForcedTransformation: People pricked by the worms' stingers turn ''into'' giant worms themselves.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted (sorta) with Jeremy Cramer, who becomes the first person converted into a giant worm, but played straight with a little girl who Felicity and the others rescue from the worms later on.
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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Averted (sorta) with Jeremy Cramer, who becomes the first person converted into a giant worm, but played straight with a little girl who Felicity and the others rescue from the worms later on.
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* BadassGrandpa: The Cramers' neighbor Bill Gable, a shotgun-toting old codger who blows apart monster worms like nobody's business.
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* CoolOldGuy: Bill Gable.
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* GrumpyOldMan: The Cramers' neighbor Bill Gable, a shotgun-toting old codger who blows apart monster worms like nobody's business.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The imprisoned giant worms in their metal coffin.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The book cover suggests that the worms of the title are of a normal size, like in ''Film/{{Squirm}}'', when in fact they're quite large.
* DeadHandShot: On the cover.
* DeadHandShot: On the cover.
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* MyCarHatesMe: The group tries to escape in Corchoran's Cadillac, only to discover it's out of gas because Corchoran was too much of a cheapskate to fill it up all the way.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: It's not called "''The Worms''" for nothing!
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* InfantImmortality: Averted (sorta) with Jeremy Cramer, who becomes the first person converted into a giant worm, but played straight with a little girl who Felicity and the others rescue from the worms later on.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Province definitely qualifies, considering its history of accusing a family of witchcraft and then burning (almost) all of them at the stake just to steal their land.
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* TheWitchFinder: Magistrates Corman and Breker fulfill this role in the prologue, accusing Granny Brind of witchcraft as part of a land-grab.
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* TheWitchFinder: TheWitchHunter: Magistrates Corman and Breker fulfill this role in the prologue, accusing Granny Brind of witchcraft as part of a land-grab.
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''The Worms'' is a horror novel written by Al Sarrantonio. It's an odd, goofy, slightly meandering story concerning the town of Province. It begins in Colonial times (1693 to be precise), wherein the Brind family are accused of witchcraft by the town's magistrates, who want the family's land. As it turns out, the family's matriarch, Granny Brind, actually ''is'' a witch (of a sort), and she summons up a whole mess of giant worms.
Despite this, the townspeople corral the giant invertebrates and imprison them in a metal coffin before turning their attention on the Brinds, who they burn at the stake. Only young Peter Brind escapes, and swears revenge.
Flash-forward to what would've been the present day at the time the novel was written (1988). Felicity Cramer returns to Province with her boyfriend Paul to see her parents and brother just as technicians at the Corchoran Waste Site unearth the metal coffin containing the giant worms, which begin going on a rampage throughout town, their stings causing their victims to transform into giant worms themselves. Felicity, Paul and the Cramers' neighbor Bill Gable fight for survival as Province becomes overrun with the hideous worms.
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!!Tropes used in this novel:
*ApatheticCitizens: Pretty much everyone in modern day Province except for Bill Gable is an apathetic jerk, including Felicity's own parents.
*BadassGrandpa: The Cramers' neighbor Bill Gable, a shotgun-toting old codger who blows apart monster worms like nobody's business.
*BalefulPolymorph: People pricked by the worms' stingers turn ''into'' giant worms themselves.
*CoolOldGuy: Bill Gable.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Corchoran, the owner of the Corchoran Waste Site.
*DirtyCoward: Corchoran abandons the others at the waste site during the worms' initial attack.
*PatientZero: The first victim of the worms is Felicity's little brother Jeremy, who went exploring at the waste site and got stung. He turns into a worm at the hospital and begins attacking people.
*TheWitchFinder: Magistrates Corman and Breker fulfill this role in the prologue, accusing Granny Brind of witchcraft as part of a land-grab.
Despite this, the townspeople corral the giant invertebrates and imprison them in a metal coffin before turning their attention on the Brinds, who they burn at the stake. Only young Peter Brind escapes, and swears revenge.
Flash-forward to what would've been the present day at the time the novel was written (1988). Felicity Cramer returns to Province with her boyfriend Paul to see her parents and brother just as technicians at the Corchoran Waste Site unearth the metal coffin containing the giant worms, which begin going on a rampage throughout town, their stings causing their victims to transform into giant worms themselves. Felicity, Paul and the Cramers' neighbor Bill Gable fight for survival as Province becomes overrun with the hideous worms.
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!!Tropes used in this novel:
*ApatheticCitizens: Pretty much everyone in modern day Province except for Bill Gable is an apathetic jerk, including Felicity's own parents.
*BadassGrandpa: The Cramers' neighbor Bill Gable, a shotgun-toting old codger who blows apart monster worms like nobody's business.
*BalefulPolymorph: People pricked by the worms' stingers turn ''into'' giant worms themselves.
*CoolOldGuy: Bill Gable.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Corchoran, the owner of the Corchoran Waste Site.
*DirtyCoward: Corchoran abandons the others at the waste site during the worms' initial attack.
*PatientZero: The first victim of the worms is Felicity's little brother Jeremy, who went exploring at the waste site and got stung. He turns into a worm at the hospital and begins attacking people.
*TheWitchFinder: Magistrates Corman and Breker fulfill this role in the prologue, accusing Granny Brind of witchcraft as part of a land-grab.
