Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

By: Butcher, D.

A tangle of tales featuring perilous plants, scary sprouts, and frightening flowers

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the "killer plant" trope in fiction, film, and video games.

Before the Demogorgon of Stranger Things and the appearance of Mario's iconic foe the Piranha Plant, writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712352295
• ISBN13: 9780712352291
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.4"