SOURCES: The Boats of "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson

DESCRIPTION: “... at the glass of the unbroken window, a reddish mass, which plunged up against it, sucking upon it, as it were ... thus I saw that it had the appearance of a many-flapped thing shaped as it might be, out of raw beef ... I could not withdraw my gaze from the tree; but scanned it the more intently; and suddenly, I saw a brown, human face peering at us from between the wrapped branches ... and I saw that one of the great cabbage-like things pursued him upon its stem, even as an evil serpent ...” (The Boats of Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson)

NOTES: The evil trees are actually giant land anemones that eat anything they can catch. Because they have no real intelligence they are relentless and will hold cornered prey captive for hours.

HISTORY: These creatures seem like a larger version of the killer cephalopods from his other stories.