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
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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
Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Cryptofiction)
Beyond the Great South Wall | Time Travel Stories | Killer Plant Stories | Sign of the Spider | Egyptian SciFi/Fantasy | PYM |
Christian Supernatural Stories | The Troll-Hunt | George MacDonald I | George MacDonald II | George MacDonald III |
Insects & Spider Stories | Sea Monster Fiction | Legend of Croquemitaine | Queen of Atlantis & Devil-Tree of El Dorado |
Jewel of Seven Stars & The Beetle | Lewis Carroll | Poe After Dark | Robert W. Chambers I | Robert W. Chambers II |
Sauria Monstra | Chesterton I | Chesterton II | Chesterton III | William Hope Hodgson | Darby O'Gill | John Silence |
Invisible Creatures | Robert H. Benson | Hawthorne After Dark | Bierce After Dark | Ape Creatures |
Stoneground Ghost Tales | Mystery Animals | M. R. James | Monstrum | Botanica Delira | Speculative Conan Doyle |
A. C. Benson | Werewolves | Ralph Adams Cram & James Platt | Supernatural H. G. Wells | E. F. Benson | Charles Loring Jackson |
Carnacki / John Bell | F. Marion Crawford & H. B. Marriott Watson | Bernard Capes | Bacillus | Owen Oliver |
M. P. Shiel | Richard Middleton & Barry Pain | Cats of Shadow | Zoologica Fantastica |