"Worms from Hell" Topic

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What if it's not just nematodes that live so far down in the dark? What if there are BIGGER worms from Hell living down there…when a miner's drill digs into its lair…?

Sounds like an adventure to me!

Bring the flame throwers and your lucky sanity dice it is going to get a bit weird!

Nah, the subterranean albino cannibal population that grew out of American Civil War refugees has almost wiped out the giant hell-worms, Cthonians, Texas rattlers, graboids, and similar burrowing predator species. Just another example of man's impact on natural ecosystems.

Looks like a few of the big wigglers may have displaced to the surface successfully, though:

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That could be hell-worm egg masses, the color's right.

Those 'sand serpents'?

A poor attempt of 'Tremors' worms under steroids, trying to grow back to the size of their glorious ancestors, Dune's sand worms.
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Nah, the subterranean albino cannibal population that grew out of American Civil War refugees has almost wiped out the giant hell-worms.

Nah, the Martense had already cleaned the underground bare: that's why they are surfacing again.
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(but why in the name of the Elder Ones did they forget the very basis of the story, the creatures' heterochromia?)
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Nematodes:

(but why in the name of the Elder Ones did they forget the very basis of the story, the creatures' heterochromia?)

Because they couldn't get David Bowie to play the role of the Martense patriarch, obviously.

Note that the timeline of the story doesn't preclude a Southern branch of the family having been driven into the deeps back in the 1860's and 70's. Part of the federal government's Reconstruction efforts consisted of black ops to eliminate or confine the supernatural nastiness that had come out of hiding in the Confederacy during the war. A family of cannibal lunatics would have qualified for attention.

BWS, I was thinking the same thing about the orange goo – alien spawn!