Plant Monsters

The Terror Garden: The World of Plant Monsters

L. H. Bailey Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture (New York, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917)

Plant Monsters have a distinct history. Beginning in the 1860s with reports of man-eating plants in South America, the idea grew and grew. Here are my various monster plant posts with Pulps, comics, even movies and TV. For a history of the green menace: Welcome to the Terror Garden. 

1860-1900s

The Earliest Plant Monsters

1910s

The Beast Plants: Monstrous Adventures

The Orchid Horror

1920s

Plant Monsters in Weird Tales

Slime Monsters in Weird Tales

The Plant Monsters of Edmond Hamilton

Plant Monsters of David H. Keller

Hugo Gernsback’s Plant Monsters

1930s

The Terror Garden: Carl Jacobi Style

Plant Monsters of Astounding

Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories: 1929-1939

Plant Monsters of the 1930s: Odds & Ends

Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy

1940s

Plant Monsters of the 1940s

The Vines of Tarzan: A Mystery

“The Jungle Scientist” by Frank Belknap Long

From the BBC’s The Day of the Triffids (1981)

1950

Plant Monsters of the 1950s

The Plant Monsters of ACG

Plant Monsters in the Comics I

Plant Monsters in the Comics II

Plant Monsters in the Comics III

The Growing Terror

Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Slime Monsters

Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Flowers

Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Trees 1

Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Trees 2

Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Space Terrors

Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Vines & Other Horrors

Plant Monsters of The House of Mystery

Egads! More Silver Age Plant Monsters!

Turok: Son of Plants

The Return of the Slime

From Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

1960s

Plant Monsters of the 1960s

The Sentient Trees of Science Fiction

Plant Monsters of the Silver Age

More Silver Age Plant Monsters

Egads! More Silver Age Plant Monsters!

1970s

Three Plant Monsters From Haunted

Gold Key Does Plant Monsters

More Bronze Age Plant Monsters

Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters I

Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters II

Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters III

Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters IV

1980s

Flowers of Evil by Robert Charles

From The Ruins (2008)

Even More Plant Monsters!

You Guessed It More Plant Monsters!

I Can’t Believe It’s More Plant Monsters!

Plant Monsters in Movies & Television

It Can’t Be! More Plant Monsters!