Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the 2019 Book Award for Speculative Fiction in the Maine Literary Awards sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. It's 1851. Will Correy had told himself he would never again sail on a whaling voyage, but here he is, serving as doctor on the whaleship Virgil Coffin. The ship is lost in unfamiliar waters. The officers cannot read the strange stars. And a mysterious woman, Dorothy, has joined the crew after they found her adrift in an open whaleboat full of human bones. This cannibal bride has a secret that she hides in a book written in secret code, and perhaps inked into her very flesh. Worst of all, there's something on this ship... something that has been picking off members of the crew. On this voyage, it's not whale blood spattered on the deck. They are thousands of miles from the nearest land, unreachable by the fastest ship. There's no one to call and no help coming. If he ever wants to see his home and his family again, Will must summon the courage to face the most unspeakable of horrors... The Scrimshaw Worm.Combining elements of horror, science fiction and meticulous historical research, this is a "must read" for fans of "Alien" or John Carpenter's "The Thing."
