Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

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.

Daisy Butcher is a scholar of Gothic nd Horror literature attached to the Open Graves, Open Minds project at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on the monstrous feminine and body horror in material ranging from nineteenth-century Gothic short fiction to modern film and TV.

Format: Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780712352291
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 22 August, 2019
Weight: 246 g
Dimensions: 191 x 133 x 21 mm

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