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(3.71) | 4 | 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. Every strain of vegetable threat (and one deadly fungus) can be found within this new collection, representing the very best tales from the undergrowth.… (more) |
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Introduction -- Unlike its contemporaries the vampire, werewolf, ghost or mummy, the killer plant has never received enough recognition as its own subgenre of gothic/horror. | |
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"The Moaning Lily" -- The Indian fanatacist walking with bare feet over coals of fire and jagged knives had nothing on him, my poor demented friend who had plodded heavily about through long tortuous months in his stifling black mantle zealously guarding his precious moaning lily. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions 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. Every strain of vegetable threat (and one deadly fungus) can be found within this new collection, representing the very best tales from the undergrowth. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains the following stories: "Rappaccini's Daughter" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne "The American's Tale" -- Arthur Conan Doyle "Carnivorine" -- Lucy H. Hooper "The Giant Wistaria" -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" -- H. G. Wells "The Guardian of Mystery Island" -- Edmond Nolcini "The Ash Tree" -- M. R. James "A Vine on a House" -- Ambrose Bierce "Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" -- Howard R. Garis "The Voice in the Night" -- William Hope Hodgson "The Pavilion" -- Edith Nesbit "The Green Death" -- H. C. McNeile "The Woman of the Wood" -- Abraham Merritt "The Moaning Lily" -- Emma Vane | |
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