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Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

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Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic - Butcher, Daisy (Editor)
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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 ...

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Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic 2019, British Library Publishing, London

ISBN-13: 9780712352291

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