Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror by Lauren Jane Barnett
Lauren Jane Barnett is an actress and multi-award-winning horror author and screenwriter known for her work on the history of horror films and her female-driven psychological horror stories. She wrote the first walking guide to London horror movies, Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History, which Kim Newman dubbed “The A to Z horror fans need”, and her sci-fi novella, Occam’s Dream, is often compared to an episode of Black Mirror. Film work includes Robot Armadillo, Video Shop Tales of Terror II, and her recent internationally award-winning horror short, Darner. She also co-hosts the London Horror Movie Club Podcast.
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Film History
Blurb:
Plant horror. The fear of flora, fungus and intelligent, mobile trees and vines has filled cinema screens for decades. From the vicious attacks of the triffids to the terrors of airborne spores, filmmakers have postulated a wide variety of eco-terrors. In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters.
