Creepy Books With Plants

It's springtime, flowers are beginning to bud and we're buying them for our mothers. Here are some books involving plants and fungi that are a little on the creepy side.


Updated May 12, 2023
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Annihilation
VanderMeer, Jeff.
Paper Book
'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and...
The big blueberry barf-off!
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
Rotten School is divided into two warring groups - Bernie Bridges and his friends in Rotten House versus Sherman Oaks and his friends in Nyce House. In 'The Big Blueberry Barf-Off', Bernie plots to win Sherman's super-cool watch and, in doing so, to win over the hottest girl in school.
The girl with all the gifts
Carey, M. R. 1959-
Paper Book
'ORIGINAL, THRILLING AND POWERFUL' - Guardian 'HAUNTING, HEARTHBREAKING' - Vogue The phenomenal million-copy bestseller that is also a BAFTA Award-nominated movie NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be...
Goosebumps : stay out of the basement
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, he says. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they... meet... some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plant...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last . . .
Mexican gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' - Guardian He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me. When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin...
Sorrowland
Solomon, Rivers
Paper Book
"A fantastical, fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous." Roxanne Gay "Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying."Independent "An exhilaratingjourney to the outer limits of science fiction." Guardian. "Epic!"Observer...
What moves the dead
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
The Fall of the House of Usher meets Mexican Gothic in this new horror novella by awarding-winning author, T. Kingfisher. An instant USA Today & Indie bestseller From...

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