The Worm Ouroboros (1922) is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison. It was originally published in London by Jonathan Cape and saw a major paperback reprint from Ballantine Books in the 1960s following the success of The Lord of the Rings. There has been a recent UK paperback edition in the Fantasy Masterworks series. A paperback edition was reissued in Bridgewater, New Jersey, by ...