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100 1 _aFarley, Ralph Milne,
_d1887-1963
245 1 0 _aVallisneria madness
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-18
508 _aAlex White, Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520 _a"Vallisneria madness by Ralph Milne Farley" is a weird-fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on the moonlit mating of the aquatic vallisneria plant and the spell it casts over a human observer, blending botanical lore with seductive illusion and perilous desire. Tom Spencer visits Professor Gordon to witness the vallisneria’s annual blooming, despite a warning not to approach the narcotic mists of the garden pool. As the moon rises, Spencer sees towering, ethereal women and green-clad men enact a fatal courtship: the men strain for a kiss, their bodies wither, and the women, sated, sink back into the slime—save one unmated beauty. Compelled, Spencer reaches her, expecting doom; instead she yields, and a breeze reveals she is Natalie Gordon standing on a bench, not a deadly apparition. The vision dissolves, and the tale resolves in a human embrace rather than a sacrificial kiss. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937
653 _aShort stories
653 _aFantasy fiction
653 _aLove stories
653 _aAquatic plants -- Fiction
700 1 _aBrundage, Margaret,
_d1900-1976
830 0 _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N05193705/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76112
999 _c116837
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