Horticultural horror
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| [[Horticultural horror]] is a term of art coined in the 20th century. | [[Horticultural horror]] is a term of art coined in the 20th century. | ||
| - | In this category is the story ''[[The Garden of Adompha]]'' by [[Clark Ashton Smith]], first published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'', April [[1938]]. The story is of a king who maintains a gruesome [[garden]] sown with human limbs [[grafted]] onto [[plant]]s. | + | In this category is the story ''[[The Garden of Adompha]]'' ([[1938]]) by [[Clark Ashton Smith]], the story of a king who maintains a gruesome [[garden]] sown with human limbs [[grafted]] onto [[plant]]s. |
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| - | :“A bare, leafless creeper was flowered with the ears of a delinquent guardsman…. Some of the salver-like blossoms bore palpitating hearts, and certain smaller blossoms were centered with eyes…” | + | |
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Horticultural horror is a term of art coined in the 20th century.
In this category is the story The Garden of Adompha (1938) by Clark Ashton Smith, the story of a king who maintains a gruesome garden sown with human limbs grafted onto plants.
See also
- The Little Shop of Horrors
- Carnivorous plant
- Body horror
- List of poisonous plants
- Plant to plant communication
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