Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) `killer plant' in fiction, film and video games.

This is a collection of gothic stories (mainly 19th and 20th century) in which the culprit behind the murders turns out to be a plant or fungus! I found these stories really original because not often a plant itself acts as a killer. It also felt like a nice wintry read to me because the stories have this gothic atmosphere. The collection includes, among others, classics by H.G. Wells and E. Nesbit.