About the book: 2023 / This book is the second volume of an anthology devoted to the topic of plants in fantasy, science fiction and adventure literature. In the early 1900s. This topic is addressed by the masters of “strange” and “horrible” stories (G. Meyrink, G. G. Evers, E. Blackwood, etc.), the authors describe the appearance of intelligent space plants on Earth and the invasion of terrible grass in London. The already familiar man-eating trees and deadly orchids have not been forgotten, of course. Contents: Remy de Gourmont. MagnoliaGustav Meyrink. Plants of Dr. Cinderella by Howard Garis. Professor Jonkin's man-eating plant Owen Oliver. Gray grassEdgao Wallace. Phalaenopsis GloriosaAmbrose Bierce. The Vine at the House by Algernon Blackwood. WillowsHans Heinz Evers. From the diary of an orange tree Lyubov Gurevich. Fresh flowers Fedor Sologub. The Poisoned GardenJean Joseph Reno. In the arms of Susanna Brew Molohan. The Tree That EatsKurd Lasswitz. Star dewHieronymus Jasinsky. Dead FlowersMarjorie Pickthall. Black OrchidJohn Blunt. The horror of orchids Mikhail Ordyntsev-Kostritsky. Rafflesia flower