You are going to spend the next three days with Arch Stanton and a cast of wacky characters. Arch lives with his grandmother in a trailer owned by Fat Ernst, the owner of the town's restaurant. Arch suffered the death of his parents and his grandfather, and he and his grandmother need financial help. Arch works for Fat Ernst at the restaurant doing all the the menial work-- from cook to janitor to busboy to errand boy.

Fat Ernst has sent the town bad boys to pick him up for work. Bert & Junior Sawyer drive a huge truck with a bull symbol on the hood. Arch is fascinated and disgusted with the conversations he is listening to about self- satisfaction and such that occur between the Sawyer brothers. Along the way to the restaurant, the guys come upon the funeral procession of one of the town's richest farmers, Earl Johnson. All the Stetson-wearing, rich farmers make the Sawyer brothers angry, so they try to out-race the procession and, in the process, throw at the procession the dead animals that they are paid to pick up.

From this point forward, WORMFOOD becomes a "scream". The antics are high-wired and comical, aside from the horrors inherent in the story. The next two days are busy for Arch and everyone else in town. Arch has discovered flesh-eating worms and is hard pressed to figure out where they originate. Although this book is really rather humorous, there are some very horrible events, including one that made me, a huge Stephen King fan, cringe.

I enjoyed WORMFOOD. It has some strong visual aspects, but I felt that maybe the title didn't capture the nature of the story as worms didn't really have a major role in the story.