Does anyone here collect horror antholigies? Searching for a story about plants.

[PNGwynne]

Aside from the thread title, I can elaborate. I'm trying to research, online, horror and sci-fi stories featuring plants and plant-human hybrids.

I recall--very vaguely--reading a short story in an anthology when I was in Jr. High (early '80s) where a botanist created a plant from a boy who was ill or dying. I think the twist of the story was the parents' shocked realization, but I'm not positive.

Finding these themes outside of comics stuff (Swamp Thing, Poison Ivy) has been surprisingly unproductive. Some film stuff (The Thing, Body Snatchers, etc) but not much literature. I probably just don't know how to search well.

Thanks.

[PNGwynne]

BTW, I think--again not positive--that Lovecraft's "Cool Air" might have been in the same anthology. I've tried searching that way, too.

[enyawd72]

Check out "Day of the Triffids"

1951 novel turned into a 1963 film...probably the best sci-fi horror plant story ever written.

[PNGwynne]

I've seen all of the film/TV adaptations of "Triffid," I really need to read Wyndham's original book. Most of his work sounds interesting.

[emeraldknight47]

I loved "Day of the Triffids" from the first minute I watched it, but it had me paranoid of tall plants outdoors for a few months. LOL!

[daz71]

there's a film called the mutations aka the freakmaker i don't know if that is based on a comic book story.

[Hedji]

Well, this doesn't sound like your description, but there's the Vincent Price anthology, "Twice Told Tales" that has a plant story in it. Price's daughter has an illness and can never leave her garden of poisonous plants. Based on a Nathaniel Hawthorne story.

And then there's The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill from Creepshow by Stephen King, which was based on "Weeds", a short story published in Cavalier magazine in 1976. (Say, there's ol' Jordy himself in my avatar!)

[knight errant00]

All I got.

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[PNGwynne]

^Lol Oh that Stanley Adams.


Hedj, your Jordy Verrill is obfuscating every search I try, no offense I love Creepshow. The Hawthorne story (amongst so many great ones) that you're thinking of is "Rappacini's Daughter." I really like it and the filmed version is quite good. Some suggest that it inspired Poison Ivy's development.

[thunderbolt]

the Woman Eater, and Ed Wood's Venus Flytrap.

[daz71]

the woman eater always gets poor reviews but i like it .

[Hedji]

^Lol Oh that Stanley Adams.


Hedj, your Jordy Verrill is obfuscating every search I try, no offense I love Creepshow.

LOL! "That's Verrill Luck. Always in... always B-A-D."

[mazinz]

Aside from the thread title, I can elaborate. I'm trying to research, online, horror and sci-fi stories featuring plants and plant-human hybrids.

I recall--very vaguely--reading a short story in an anthology when I was in Jr. High (early '80s) where a botanist created a plant from a boy who was ill or dying. I think the twist of the story was the parents' shocked realization, but I'm not positive.

Finding these themes outside of comics stuff (Swamp Thing, Poison Ivy) has been surprisingly unproductive. Some film stuff (The Thing, Body Snatchers, etc) but not much literature. I probably just don't know how to search well.

Thanks.

Check this thread here:

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83291/anyone-know-the-title-of-a-sci-fi-short-story-where-man-becomes-a-plant

Perhaps this is what you are looking for?

[samurainoir]

In the original novel that The Thing is based on, Who Goes There, is "The Thing" a plant in the prose version?

[dr_cyclops]

"Day of the Triffids" is one of my personal favorites.
"Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" has a story with a giant plant taking over a house.
"Angery Red Planet" has a seen with a Martian plant grabbing a female. Still, so many vintage Sci-Fi films had such scenes, as they were pretty simple to do.