Hugh Cook's Chronicles of an Age of Darkness

I created a Hugh Cook Fan group on Facebook, just for the heck of it.

A 1978 novel by Vonda McIntyre (which I've never read), featuring healing snakes.

Dreamsnake

Sold for $75 in New Zealand.

Hooch Neesberry is a member of the underworld of Untunchilamon.

Hooch is a slang term for illicitly distilled alcohol.

Neesberry is a word for the sapodilla fruit.

Jarl is another word for the title "Earl".

Codlugarthia pointed out the German Dadaist poem 'Anna Blume' which was the source of some inspiration for WEREWOLF/WORMLORD.

Here's the poem in German and English.

Note the first line:

"Oh thou, beloved of my twenty-seven senses..."

The first draft of Chapter One of Hugh's next project:

The telephone rang at 0200 precisely, and she woke instantly. She had been on edge for a week, ever since the letter had arrived, the unsigned handwritten note which said, simply, "We have found you."
Blinking at the huge orange digital clock atop the gas station across the road, she internally registered the time as oh two hundred hours. She had got into the habit of thinking in military time during the two years she had spent incarcerated in the brig at Fort Worloth, held there for her own safety while awaiting trial. In an ordinary prison, she would not have survived. Not even in a women's jail. Not even amongst females, her own kind. Especially not amongst females.

Ok, the Chronicles timeline is up on the wiki here.

I've also put up the calendar comparison.