botanical horrors

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

The subject of horror stories involving killer plants or other malevolent forms of plant life came up recently on my yahoo horror group. Apart from the obvious suspects (The Day of the Triffids and Rappaccini’s Daughter) what surprised me is that we were able to come up with about a dozen examples of botanical horror stories. Who knew that plants were so dangerous?

So how many botanical horror stories can you think of?

Dracula The Un-Dead

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

Dracula The Un-Dead will be released next month. This is the "official" sequel to Dracula authorised by the Stoker family and written by Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker. It's apparently based on notes made by Stoker himself for his original novel and apparently includes material that had been intended for inclusion in the original.

How do you feel about this? Is it just a marketing ploy? It's being "co-written" by a screenwriter named Ian Holt, which makes me wonder if in this case "co-written" actually means "ghost-written" - or am I just an old cynic? Can a sequel written by someone other than the author of the original work really be an "official" sequel?

Will this new novel qualify as Dracula canon? And are you going to read it?