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9780712352291

Evil Roots Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780712352291

  • ISBN10:

    0712352295

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-03-01
  • Publisher: British Library Publishing

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Summary

A tangle of tales featuring perilous plants, scary sprouts, and frightening flowers

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the "killer plant" trope in fiction, film, and video games.

Before the Demogorgon of Stranger Things and the appearance of Mario's iconic foe the Piranha Plant, writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries were exploring the lethal potential of vegetable life, inspired by new carnivorous species discovered on expeditions into the deep jungles of the world and breakthroughs in the grafting and genetics disciplines of botany.

Suddenly, the exotic orchid could become a curiously alluring, yet unsettlingly bloodthirsty menace; the beautifully sprawling wisteria of the stately home could become anything but civilized, and the experimentation of botanists weening new shoots on their own blood could become fuel for a new genre of horticultural nightmare.

Step within to marvel at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's giant wistaria and H. G. Wells' hungry orchid; hear the calls of the ethereal women of the wood, and the frightful drone of the moaning lily; and do tread carefully around E. Nesbit's wandering creepers

Every strain of vegetable threat (and one deadly fungus) can be found within this new collection, representing the very best tales from the undergrowth of Gothic fiction.

Also featuring illustrations by Lauren Forrester.

Author Biography

Daisy Butcher is a Gothic and Horror scholar attached to The Open Graves, Open Minds project. Her research focuses on the monstrous feminine and body horror from the 19th century Gothic short story to modern film and TV.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7
Rappacini’s Daughter—Nathaniel Hawthorne 11
The American’s Tale—Arthur Conan Doyle 49
Carnivorine—Lucy H. Hooper 61
The Giant Wistaria—Charlotte Perkins Gilman 77
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid—H. G. Wells 89
The Guardian of Mystery Island—Edmond Nolcini 101
The Ash Tree—M. R. James 123
A Vine on a House—Ambrose Bierce 141
Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant—Howard R. Garis 147
The Voice in the Night—William Hope Hodgson 161
The Pavillion—Edith Nesbitt 179
The Green Death—H. C. McNeile 199
The Women of the Wood—Abraham Merritt 237
The Moaning—Lily Emma Vane 273

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