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Botanical Horror

Se vi sentite il pollice verde anche in campo horror, ecco l’antologia che fa per voi: Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic è un’interessante raccolta di racconti, a cura di British Library Publishing, che vede come protagonista un mondo vegetale piuttosto particolare, descritto nei suoi più inquietanti aspetti dalla penna di celebri scrittori come Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, H.G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson e molti altri.
Qui sotto, l’indice del volume, attualmente disponibile a questo link.
Indice del volume
Introduction, by Daisy Butcher
“Rappaccini’s Daughter”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)“The American’s Tale”, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1880)“Carnivorine”, by Lucy H. Hooper (1889)“The Giant Wistaria”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891)“The Flowering of the Strange Orchid”, by H.G. Wells (1894)“The Guardian of Mystery island”, by Edmond Nolcini (1896)“The Ash Tree”, by M.R. James (1904)“A Vine on a House”, by Ambrose Bierce (1905)“Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant”, by Howard R. Garis (1905)“The Voice in the Night”, by William Hope Hodgson (1906)“The Pavillon”, by Edith Nesbith (1915)“The Green Death”, by H.C. McNeile (1920)“The Woman in the Wood”, by Abraham Merritt (1926)“The Moaning Lily”, by Emma Vane (1935)
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic is an interesting anthology by British Library Publishing that collects the very best tales from the undergrowth of Gothic fiction, with stories by famous Authors like Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, H.G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson and more. The volume is available for purchase at this link. See above the table of contents.
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