Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (British Library Tales of the Weird) - Softcover

Daisy Butcher; Arthur Conan Doyle; Lucy H Hooper; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; H G Wells; Edmond Nolcini; M R James; Ambrose Bierce; Howard R Garis; William Hope Hodgson; Edith Nesbit; H C McNeile; Abraham Merritt; Emma Vane; Nathaniel Hawthorne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712352295 ISBN 13: 9780712352291

Publisher: British Library Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) 'killer plant' in fiction, film and video games.

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.

About this title

About the Author

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 nineteenth century gothic short story to modern film and TV.

From the Back Cover

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) `killer plant' in fiction, film and video games.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Library Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712352295
• ISBN 13: 9780712352291
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288