With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.
The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” ...
The triffids have broken through the fence ! " Susan screamed , running downstairs . " They're all around the house . Their leaves are pressed up against my bedroom window . I can't see anything ! " I ran upstairs and tiptoed across the ...
The triffids are gigantic plant marauders that afflict the earth when the majority of the people are blinded by a celestial calamity.
When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen—one of the lucky few to wake up with his sight—finds himself trapped in a London packed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see.
The classic postapocalyptic thriller with “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare” (The Times, London).
The night the sky broke out in mysterious green flashes, all but a few people on Earth were blinded.
The Day of the Triffids
The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world.