Man-eating plants
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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Title: The Day of the Triffids Author: John Wyndham Year: 1951 Publishing Details: Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., 2003 Modern Library Paperback Edition Genre: Science Fiction Topical Category: Man-eating Plants, Post-Apocalyptic Synopsis and Background: Post-apocalyptic imaginings are a fixture of science fiction. From the hypothesized post-Martian future of War of the Worlds (1898), …
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The Ruins by Scott Smith
Title: The Ruins Author: Scott Smith Year: 2006 Publishing Details: First Vintage Books, Random House Inc., New York, Mass Market Edition, August 2007 Genre: Horror Topical Category: Man-eating Plants Synopsis and Background: It’s August and a small group of young people go on vacation. They wear skimpy swimwear, drink booze, make out, and generally eat…
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The Plants by Kenneth McKenney
Title: The Plants Author: Kenneth McKenney Year: 1976 Publishing Details: Bantam Book, published by arrangement with G.P. Putnam’s Sons, February 1977 Genre: Science Fiction, Horror Topical Category: Man-eating Plants, Eco-horror Synopsis and Background: I love love love man-eating plants. Sadly, they are few and far between. More often they are some variants of man-killing plants…
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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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