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'Tis Nyte! by Elizabeth Watasin

Gothic Steampunk, Noir Sci-Fi, Diesel Fantasy. Bringing You Uncanny Heroines in Adventuress Tales.

Currently reading

The Bombshell Manual of Style
Laren Stover, Ruben Toledo
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin de Becker
Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Allyson Grey, Diana Reed Slattery
In The Eye of The Beholder: A Novel of The Phantom of the Opera
Sharon E. Cathcart

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by HG Wells

— feeling skull

(originally published in Pearson's Magazine, April 1905)

 

Short and excellent; that was a fun read!

 

It had been suggested to me ages ago when I was writing Poison Garden: An Elle Black Penny Dread Vol 2 (to be released next year, due to *long sob story* :( ). Yaaaay 19th c creepy/horror garden stories. iN England. :D

 

Link to story: https://personal.uwaterloo.ca/jerry/orchids/wells.html

 

~flies away