The Coming of the White Worm

I think this one’s actually supposed to be a swan, but I can’t help thinking of that Clark Ashton Smith story The Coming of the White Worm. . . .

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

16 thoughts on “The Coming of the White Worm”

  2. Don’t know Smith’s work that well, but Stoker’s story is “Lair of the White Worm”.

  7. Looks like a dwarf elephant’s head complete with small ears and its trunk coming out.

  8. I wonder what’s on Jimmy’s iPod?
    That’s classified.
    Only the highest members of Jimmy Akin’s Personality Cult (perhaps Tim J., SDG, bill912) know that information.

  9. SDG:
    No, “The Lair of the White Worm” was Stoker. “The Coming of the White Worm” was C.A.S.. I wouldn’t know if they share any elements in common, because I’ve yet to read either one . . . 🙁

  16. And here we were thinking that you were in Greece, when you’re really off the coast of Boca Raton disturbing newly discovered species and turning them into bedroom accesories. For shame!
    Oh, and…Bless the Maker, his coming and going, his snoring and wheezing…(for the Duno-o-philes).

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