Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Chad Arment, editor
ISBN 1-930585-56-X
Retail $14.95 (USD)
337 pp. / Paperback

Strange Plants in Fiction:

Flora Curiosa is an anthology of 20 classic short stories involving all manner of strange plants and fungi. These are the precursors (and often direct influences) of contemporary "killer plants" books and movies in fantasy and science fiction.

Rappaccini's Daughter (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne
The American's Tale (1880), Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man-Eating Tree (1881), Phil Robinson
The Balloon Tree (1883), Edward Page Mitchell
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894), H. G. Wells
The Treasure in the Forest (1894), H. G. Wells
The Purple Pileus (1896), H. G. Wells
The Purple Terror (1898), Fred M. White
A Vine on a House (1905), Ambrose Bierce
Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant (1905), Howard R. Garis
The Willows (1907), Algernon Blackwood
The Voice in the Night (1907), William Hope Hodgson
The Orchid Horror (1911), John Blunt
The Man Whom the Trees Loved (1912), Algernon Blackwood
The Pavilion (1915), E. Nesbit
The Sumach (1919), Ulric Daubeny
The Green Death (1920), H. C. McNeile
Si Urag of the Tail (1923), Oscar Cook
Green Thoughts: A Story (1931), John Collier
The Walk to Lingham (1934), Lord Dunsany