Arboris Mysterius - Stories of the Uncanny and Undescribed from the Botanical Kingdom (Paperback)

Nineteen tales of flowering enigmas and leafy terrors are presented in Coachwhip Publications' third volume of cryptobotanical short stories from classic science fiction and fantasy. Man-eating trees, poisonous orchids, killer cacti, and lycanthrope-inducing blossoms are among the mysterious vegetation we meet in these tales, as the botanical kingdom shows its teeth. Stories include The Giant Wistaria (1891), Kasper Craig (1892), The Gold Plant (1895), The Story of the Grey House (1898), The Flower of Death (1916), The Lure of the Lavender Trees (1917), The Warlock of Glororum (1919), An Orchid of Asia: a Tale of the South Seas (1920), "Glued" (1921), The Tree (1921), Through the Crater's Rim (1926), The Blood-Flower (1927), The Devils of Po Sung (1927), White Orchids (1927), Vine Terror (1934), The Devil Flower (1939), The Garden of Hell (1943), and Cactus (1950).