"The Thing from Blasted Heath"

by Brian Lumley
originally published The Caller of the Black, Arkham House 1971

The unnamed narrator collects weird plants.  His new prize is a weirdy shipped from the "blasted heath" region around Arkham (cf. "The Colour Out Of Space").  It turns out to be a bad choice.  The new plant kills his cat, then his neighbor.  He kills and burns it.  But it appears that may not have finished it...


A nothing-special early Lumley tale.