![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. After a long day in the garden, what better way is there to relax than read stories about killer plants In this collection of fourteen tales there is more than enough evil to make you wonder if plants are really our friends. ![]() 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. Daisy Butcher, Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (British Library 2019). 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. 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. ![]() Step within to marvel at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's giant wistaria and H. ![]() 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. ![]()
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