Flora Curiosa is an anthology of classic short stories involving all manner of strange plants and fungi. These are the precursors (and often direct influences) of contemporary "killer plants" books and movies in fantasy and science fiction. Man-eating trees, strangling vines, deadly flowers and more are included. Stories include:
- Rappaccini's Daughter (1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- The American's Tale (1880, Arthur Conan Doyle)
- The Man-Eating Tree (1881, Phil Robinson)
- The Balloon Tree (1883, Edward Page Mitchell)
- The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894, H. G. Wells)
- The Treasure in the Forest (1894, H. G. Wells)
- The Purple Pileus (1896, H. G. Wells)
- The Purple Terror (1898, Fred M. White)
- A Vine on a House (1905, Ambrose Bierce)
- Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant (1905, Howard R. Garis)
- The Willows (1907, Algernon Blackwood)
- The Voice in the Night (1907, William Hope Hodgson)
- The Orchid Horror (1911, John Blunt)
- The Man Whom the Trees Loved (1912, Algernon Blackwood)
- The Pavilion (1915, E. Nesbit)
- The Sumach (1919, Ulric Daubeny)
- The Green Death (1920, H. C. McNeile)
