Review: Evil Roots – Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

Edited by Daisy Butcher, (London: British Library Publishing, 2019. 288 pages). ISBN 978-0712352291 Cultivated by a scholar with a pleasingly sinister floral name (Daisy Butcher, the Gothic gardener of the Open Graves, Open Minds project), this collection of short stories is a delightful Halloween present for any green fingered Gothicist. Packed with bloodsucking succulents ripe …