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Hortus Diabolicus: Further Twisted Tales of Menacing Flora and Malignant Fungi
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781616465254
Publisher: Coachwhip Pubn
Published: Apr 18 2022
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This fourth Coachwhip anthology of weird botanical and fungal entities collects 21 stories with menacing flowers from the darkest corners of the globe, invasive seeds from outer space, botanical experiments gone awry, and expeditions encountering mythical green horrors. From the uncanny nature of our vast forests and jungles to the scientific manipulation of vegetational genes, the world of plants and fungi offers a vast wellspring of inspiration for writers of speculative fiction, and these anthologies have shown the many strange and different ideas that take root under cover of darkness.
Stories included are: Phalaenopsis Gloriosa (1905) by Edgar Wallace, The Tree That Eats (1908) by Brew Molohan, The Devil Plant (1923) by Lyle Wilson Holden, Fungus Isle (1923) by Philip M. Fisher, Mandrake (1923) by Adam Hull Shirk, Si Urag of the Tail (1923) by Oscar Cook, The Gray Death (1923) by Loual B. Sugarman, The Man-Trap (1925) by Hamilton Craigie, The Plant-Thing (1925) by R. G. Macready, Dorner Cordaianthus (1925) by Hester Holland, The Devil-Plant (1928) by John Murray Reynolds, The Gas-Weed (1929) by Stanton A. Coblentz, Up Irriwaddy Way (1929) by Lieutenant Edgar Gardiner, Moss Island (1930) by Carl Jacobi, The Giant Puffball (1931) by Eugene Stowell, At the Bend of the Trail (1934) by Manly Wade Wellman, Seeds from Space (1935) by Laurence Manning, The Moaning Lily (1935) by Emma Vanne, The Glowworm Flower (1936) by Stanton A. Coblentz, Forest of Evil (1938) by John Murray Reynolds, and Seed (1946) by Jack Snow.
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