![]() Here are the stories, with asterisks by the ones that impressed me the most: I ended up skipping the mini introduction to each story as they were thin on biographical details but had spoilers in them! There are some line drawings of plants included, which are nice but I don’t feel they are necessary. The introduction was quite interesting but strangely had no mention of The Day of the Triffids. Some of the authors are well-known, others more obscure. They all date from the late 19th century to the early 20th. I only disliked 2 of them, so that makes this book a winner. This is the first of the British Library Tales of the Weird series that I’ve read but the format is the same as the Science Fiction series. The theme of this book is scary plants – or as classier persons say, the botanical gothic. ![]() They are almost as frightening as the amount of alliteration I used in that sentence! The coincidence of the editor’s name is quite odd. Villainous vines, odious orchids and terrifying trees run riot through this creepy collection. ![]()
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