Title: The maggot people
Description: After inheriting a house in the south of France, Michael meets and falls in love with a fugitive stranger named Ariel. He soon discovers that through contact with her, he is turning into "a maggot person"--A maggot-filled body topped by a still-functioning brain. Soon Michael finds himself embroiled in the machinations of an absurd, powerful hermetic Roman cult obsessed with eternal life and inextricably entwined with the Second Coming.
Subjects: Cults, Metamorphosis, Fiction, Fiction, general