The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach · Book 5

The Wurms of Blearmouth

Published
1 June 2012
Pages
208
ISBN-13
9780765324269
Type
novella
Cover of The Wurms of Blearmouth

About this book

The Wurms of Blearmouth, the fifth book in the sequence, runs 208 pages -- the longest novella to that point -- and precedes The Fiends of Nightmaria as the trio's travels continue leaving corpses in their wake.

Key facts about The Wurms of Blearmouth

The Wurms of Blearmouth is a novella by Steven Erikson. Readers have had it since 1 June 2012. It runs to 208 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Wurms of Blearmouth. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765324269 to find the main one.

The Wurms of Blearmouth is book 5 of 7 in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. The series has 7 published books. However, the series starts with Blood Follows (2002). Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 31 October 2020.

Additionally, Steven Erikson writes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy and Willful Child, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, No Life Forsaken is the latest published Steven Erikson book on file, from 23 October 2025.

About Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson is the pen name of Canadian author Steve Rune Lundin, a trained archaeologist and anthropologist whose academic background directly shaped his approach to epic fantasy. He is best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume series co-developed with collaborator Ian Cameron Esslemont from a shared tabletop role-playing campaign, beginning with Gardens of the Moon in 1999. See every Steven Erikson book in order.

Its place in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

The Wurms of Blearmouth is book 5 in the The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. It follows Crack'd Pot Trail. It is followed by The Fiends of Nightmaria. See the full The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach reading order.

A run of dark-comic novellas set in the Malazan world, following the necromancer Bauchelain, his monstrous and near-silent partner Korbal Broach, and their long-suffering manservant Emancipor Reese as they wander from one doomed town to the next, leaving chaos, corpses and reanimated horrors behind them. Where the main Malazan Book of the Fallen aims for tragic scale, these novellas are Erikson at his blackest and funniest -- gothic horror-comedy with the pitch-dark wit of a man who clearly enjoys writing…

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