Monday 8 November 2010

Monstrous Monday 1


Two images from The Purple Terror, a short story about a man-eating plant in Meso-America by a very interesting writer, now largely forgotten, Fred M White. The story appeared in 1899 in The Strand. There's a surprisingly big sub-genre of killer plant stories, including one written by children's author Edith Nesbit (who had a nice sideline in horror stories) and Sapper, of Bulldog Drummond fame.

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  1. I am looking for all of the illustrations from THE PURPLE TERROR. Can you help me?

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