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Bram Stoker's 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm, and Ian Watson's 1988 novel The Fire Worm, draw heavily on the Lambton Worm legend.
This myth, along with many others originating from the North East, is retold in the graphic novel Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot.
Jeff Smith's graphic novel Rose has the title character following the same instructions to overcome a dragon.
The Lambton Worm legend, including the subsequent death of Henry Lambton, is referred to in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason and Dixon; typically, given the themes of mythology and historiography within the novel, Pynchon alters some details of the legend (for instance, moving the location of the 'wise woman' and advice given to John Lambton on how to defeat the worm to Transylvania).
A version of the tale was published by Joseph Jacobs, using William Henderson's text in Folk-Lore of Northern Counties as a source.
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