Long before the publication of The Secret Life Of Plants, writers of vast imagination had seen that there was more to plant life than met the naked eye - that plants are capable of thought, of passion, of hate, of action, of striking terror in the strongest heart...

Roots Of Evil is a spine-tingling collection of creepy tales by such writers, a powerfully convincing argument that plants are more alive, more aware than we think. Read, then, the twelve stories in this book:

• Introduction by Carlos Cassaba (Michel Parry)
• The Seed From the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H.G. Wells
• Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Dorner Cordaianthus by Hester Holland
• Come Into My Parlour by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Tree's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• The Ivy War by David H. Keller
• Green Thoughts by John Collier
• Dr. Adams' Garden of Evil by Fritz Leiber
• Daisies by Fredric Brown
• The Gardener by Margaret St. Clair
• Green Thumb by Clifford D. Simak

Stories that will sow the seeds of doubt in your mind - Still think that plants are just pretty faces?.