The Works of Vermin
by Hiron Ennes
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Pub Date 16 Oct 2025 | Archive Date 16 Oct 2025
Pan Macmillan | Tor Nightfire
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Description
'An intriguing work of whimsi-grotesquerie' – Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
He was sent to kill a pest. Instead, he found a monster.Monster hunters tangle with court politics in this horror adventure by the critically acclaimed author of Leech.
Enter the decadent, deadly city of Tiliard.
In a complex, chaotic metropolis, Guy Moulène has a simple goal: keep his sister out of debt. For her sake, he’ll take on any job, no matter how vile.
As an exterminator, Guy hunts the uncanny pests that crawl up from the river. These vermin are all strange, and often dangerous. His latest quarry is different: a worm the size of a dragon with a deadly venom and a ravenous taste for artwork. As it digests Tiliard from the sewers to the opera houses, its toxin reshapes the future of the city. No sane person would hunt it, if they had the choice.
Guy doesn’t have a choice.
'A lush and seductive story, rife with opulent horror and decaying decadence' – Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters
'I will follow this writer anywhere going forward' – Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781529073652 |
| PRICE | £22.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 432 |
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Featured Reviews
Clara C, Reviewer
Wildly imaginative, narratively clever book that does its reader the courtesy of expecting them to be intelligent, attentive, and able to keep up. The social inventiveness, in which artistic works structure everything to do with power and society and politics and influence, and political movements and regimes are themselves called things like, 'Extemporist' and 'Revivalist', was brilliant. The toxic sludge of rot and decay and verminous infestations reminds me of Kameron Hurley, and the use of scent as mode of expression, armour, attack, and defense, was a stroke of genius. This is a book that will repay rereadings.
