Non-Review Musings
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Man-Eating Varieties and Other Unusual Flora
During the age of discovery and afterwards European explorers all over the world sent back travelogs recording their adventures in foreign and exotic lands. Some of them were perhaps not as…accurate as the public came to believe. But the more sensational they were, the better they sold. There were tales of living dinosaurs in Africa,…
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, Flora Curiosa, Horror, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Jim Endersby, Little Shop of Horrors, Man-eating plants, Orchid:A Cultural History, Roger Corman and Jim Jerome, Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, Science Fiction, Science Fiction by Gaslight, Searching for Hidden Animals: An Inquiry into Zoological Mysteries, The Little Shop of Horrors
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The Fleet and the Fluffy: Feathered Dinosaurs as Movie Monsters
In a half-remembered time a few years ago now, I had a great many rambling thoughts and feelings about feathered dinosaurs as movie monsters and wrote them down. After reading Relic I am not ready to embark on a full Jurassic Park review quite yet, but I figured I would post this here as it…
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