The third and final novel in Ramsey Campbell's triumphant Lovecraftian
trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, where time travel, monstrous evil
and the alien apocalypse combine to create a stunning conclusion for
streaming TV lovers and suspense readers alike.
With The Way of the Worm, Campbell's cosmic trilogy comes to a
triumphant conclusion. -- S.T. Joshi
Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.
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...
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