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A Botanical Daughter
A Horror Novel by Noah Medlock
Subgenres:
- Victorian London,
- Queer Gothic,
- Mad Scientist,
- Frankenstein Retelling,
- Body Horror
This book is for you if you're into...
- Victorian queer horror set in a lush, secretive botanical garden
- Frankenstein-inspired experiments with sentient fungus and taxidermy
- Darkly witty stories about ambition, secrecy, and unconventional family
From Little Stack
Simon and Gregor live in a botanical garden. Strange, but then, they both are a bit unusual. Simon has his taxidermal art and Gregory his exotic plants. Their life is secluded, but ordinary, until Gregory acquires a new fungus that just might be intelligent. He soon becomes obsessed with finding out exactly how smart it might be, how far he can grow it. But as his experiment flourishes, the cracks in his plan begin to show. Because you can’t reason with a plant. You can’t control it. And as the mycelium grows, it becomes less obvious who exactly is cultivating who.
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut.
A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences.
It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor’s business is exotic plants – lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he’s seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.
Driven by the glory he’ll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate.
The experiment – or Chloe, as she is named – outstrips even Gregor’s expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor’s experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?
Told with wit and warmth, this is an extraordinary tale of family, fungus and more than a dash of bloody revenge from an exciting new voice in queer horror.
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