reading roundup part 1: oh worm?

In the past like 3 months I have read... so many Doctor Who novels. So many. (How did I end up here...?)

(To be specific I've read Terror of the Autons, The Claws of Axos, The Mind of Evil, The Daemons, The Sea Devils, Scream of the Shalka and Last of the Gaderene. Uh.)

I'll probably be posting my thoughts on those, but first off, the one thing I've read that's not a Doctor Who novel: For the past couple weeks, I've been slogging my way through The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker.

I did actually pick it up because of a Doctor Who audio (🙈), Trail of the White Worm, which is based on it. It's a very loose adaptation, making use of certain plot elements of Stoker's story, but obviously inserting Doctor Who characters and with a totally different plotline overall. It was fun, and it reminded me I had the original sitting around!

I had heard that White Worm was not considered among Stoker's best work (in fact I'm pretty sure I'd seen someone online say that it was terrible, but by that point I'd already bought it). But it's pretty short -- only 145 pages in my edition -- and I wanted something spooky to read for autumn. A lot of horror that gets called really bad ends up being goofy but fun, so I figured it might be one of those situations.

( I'm about halfway through it, but it's uphill work. )

At this point, I don't know if it will get any better or if it will somehow get worse, but I'm going to try to finish it by the end of the month and then I can tick it off my list.