plant horror

  • Kew Gardens tour: Plant Horror for Halloween

    Plants that walk, flowers that smell of rotting flesh, carnivorous flora, and fungi that penetrate insects to consume their insides… Join us for a tour of the plants and fungi that have evolved some spooky adaptations, many of which have inspired horror films, myths, and legends. You’ll get up close to plants that feature in…

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  • Book Party for Natural Thorn Killers

    Over the weekend, we had the book party for Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror.  It was an absolute smash!  The Cooper’s Arms was filled to the rafters (thankfully wiht air conditioning!)  and the lovely Janina Faye of Day of the Triffids fame was there to help us kick it off. We mingled…

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  • We’re on Lydia’s Books of Terror

    As a big fan of the “Dead Air” podcast, I am very excited to say that our book, Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror made it only Lydia Preeve’s Lydia’s Books of Terror April watch list!  We are the only non-ficiton on the list, but got a lot of love and are so…

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  • “Natural Thorn Killers” Available for Pre-order

    It’s finally here for Pre-Order, coming out 24 April! Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror Written by Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon 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 in horror…

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  • Coming Up: Politics and Horror Conference

    On 7th of May I will be speaking at the University of Sterling’s Politics and Horror Conference! I am very excitted by all the panelists we have this year. There will be talks on Horror and Immigration, the Feminist Activism in Occult Britain, the Ideologies of Zombie cinema, and many others! It’s worth checking out…

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Lauren Jane Barnett