Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

Author:   Daisy Butcher
Publisher:   British Library Publishing
ISBN:  

9780712352291


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic


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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 deadly fungus) can be found within this new collection, representing the very best tales from the undergrowth of Gothic fiction.

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Author:   Daisy Butcher
Publisher:   British Library Publishing
Imprint:   British Library Publishing
ISBN:  

9780712352291


ISBN 10:   0712352295
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"""Cultivated by a scholar with a pleasingly sinister floral name, this collection of short stories is a delightful Halloween present for any green-fingered Gothicist."" --Dark Arts Journal"


Cultivated by a scholar with a pleasingly sinister floral name, this collection of short stories is a delightful Halloween present for any green-fingered Gothicist. --Dark Arts Journal


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Daisy Butcher is a Doctoral Student working on the Open Graves, Open Minds Project at the University of Hertfordshire. Her study focuses on depictions of the feminine in gothic and weird fiction, including particular discussion of female mummies, vampires, and of course, the killer plant.

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