Finished reading: Evil Roots by D. Butcher 📚
Who knew botanical gothic was a genre, let alone my kind of genre. Not terribly surprising, nature’s revenge is a trope I enjoy.
from The Guardian of Mystery Island by Edmond Nolcini
This action served to reveal what had at one time been a path, but now, like every other effort of man here, indicated a contention with, and partial subjection to, the native wildness of the woodland.
Now, however, the sharp tooth of time had gnawed into the vitals of the old place,
when two have a secret it becomes public matter.
from The Ash Tree by M. R. James
I wish to have one of these houses, and enough money to keep it together and entertain my friends in it modestly.