Worms. Book The First

The heart of the church is rotting away beneath the feet of the devout.
The scheming and plots of Conclave are disrupted.
The clergy are afflicted.
There is a New Pope.

the first volume of my gothic horror series, Worms, collecting the prologue and chapters 1-3. Worms is a tale of despair, complicity and doom, set in the corridors of the Vatican, following a young priest called Eulogius Ely as he has a crisis of faith, in himself and in the church.

40 pages, B5 size, perfect bound, black and white interior art.

Praise for Worms:

"Worms lives up to its name. Burrowing into your skin with dread just as Erika's singular inks writhe their way around each boiling frame. Continuing to showcase her masterful grasp of atmosphere and horror, Erika Price's latest work serves us a cold, queasy narrative of guilt and doubt (to which i personally am quite partial). She is creating the sort of comics that no one else is, and morever, that no one else could. I am thrilled and inspired by her work every time" - E.M. Carroll (A Guest In The House, When I Arrived At The Castle)

"Worms explores a crisis of spiritual faith in the face of secular corruption that physically manifests itself into a grotesque, nervously shrivelled world. Craving treachery? Read Erika Price" - Katie Skelly (Maids, Heaven, My Pretty Vampire)

"The first installment of Erika Price's Worms (self-published) sees the cartoonist follow her previous endeavor, the astonishing horror-as-autobio Disorder, with a more straightforward narrative, but one which does not lose any of the innate sense of nightmare-urgency; Price's cartooning, with its jagged, forceful lines in pen and white-out, makes one feel like they are being chased and their leg has just gone numb."
- Hagai Palevsky (https://www.tcj.com/the-best-comics-of-2024-as-chosen-by-tcj-contributors)

"Price’s visuals are as intense, overwhelming and sometimes almost overbearing as ever. Every panel is meticulously detailed and shaded in depiction, echoing the sense of doom that Eley and his colleagues are feeling with a scratchy and raw style that feels at once cold and unforgiving but also grotesque and exaggerated as well."
- Andy Oliver (https://www.brokenfrontier.com/worms-erika-price/)