Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

FLOWERING EVIL: Something Was Killing Animals Near Her Hothouse | #MidnightInTheMacabre

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Show Notes

Her nephew sent her exotic plants from every port of call across the solar system, but there was something about his latest gift from Venus that made the old captain uneasy.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Flowering Evil” by Margaret St. Clair (Planet Stories Summer 1950)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 14, 2026

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