The first edition was published in 1911. The language is very dated and the characters speech seems very stilted. It is also, due to its era, somewhat racist.
It did however provide some amusement. ( )

This was not good. Its Wikipedia article said something about it being described as one of the worst books ever written, and, well, yes.

Having loved Dracula, I was eager to read "The Lair of the White Worm". To my disappointment, I found it intolerable and unreadable. I can see why, according to the Wikipedia page, it has been characterized as one of the worst works ever written.
I almost always finish a work that I've started reading. Not this time. ( )

El villano de esta peculiar novela iniciática, escrita al parecer bajo el influjo de las drogas, es una gigantesca y primitiva entidad serpentiforme, que vive en un hediondo pozo a mil pies de profundidad en el antiguo emplazamiento de un templo pagano con claras reminiscencias de Machen. Pero esta singular criatura primigenia, que espera pacientemente completar su ancestral tarea destructiva, adopta la forma humana de la sinuosa y bella Lady Arabella, capaz de devorar hombres y fortunas con idéntica frialdad. El tema de la mujer demonio se desdobla así en el de la supervivencia del gran gusano prehistórico, una supervivencia verdaderamente monstruosa porque elimina la noción de tiempo, haciendo que todo sea posible, que todo se convierta en pesadilla. Lady Arabella es al mismo tiempo la Mujer y el Dragón del Apocalipsis, Eva y la Serpiente, y para que no haya dudas su principal antagonista se llama apropiadamente Adam.

Well. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. The white worm is not particularly scary, in my opinion, which is not usually a big deal. But when I add in the unnecessary, cruel, overt, baffling racism. And I mean "unnecessary" because the story line added NOTHING. It all just sort of fell apart for me. I kept reading because the writing wasn't awful and I wanted to know how in the world the author would end this thing.

NOT recommended. ( )