Fungi Recs

[silviamg]

Hi,

Innsmouth Free Press is publishing an anthology titled Fungi this December. Laird Barron, Jeff VanderMeer, Nick Mamatas, W. H. Pugmire, and many others are in it. We are trying to gather as many recs of fungi in speculative media (books, movies, comics, etc) and I'm wondering if some of you Weird fiction fanatics can help us? I clearly remember Lumley's fungal story "In the House of Cthulhu," but there must be more of that. You can see what we have here.

To add recs, please chick here.

Fungi itself is at http://fungiantho.com

That is all, and thank you in advance for all your fungal knowledge.

[ElijahWhateley]

These pages may be of help:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...ungusHumongous
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MushroomMan
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph.../MagicMushroom
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...esteringFungus

Although I'm a little curious about how long you want this article to be. All references to fungi? A sizeable percent of all science fiction has fungi of some kind play a role - it's an entire kingdom of life, like animals or plants. It's less prevalent as a major element in horror and fantasy, but there still have to be hundreds if not thousands of pieces involving fungi in those genres, especially if you broaden your scope to include moves, comic, and computer games. Then if you include things that are probably fungi, like slime blob monsters that are probably either slime molds or inspired by them, the list gets longer. 85 entries isn't going to even scratch the surface; 850 might, but wouldn't be a fraction of comprehensive. You might want to limit yourselves to fungi in (written) horror fiction, or particularly notable fungi stories.

Come to think of it, technically every piece of media where beer plays a huge role would count...

[GBSteve]

D&D has violet fungus, shriekers, vile fungus, fungus beasts, Zuggtmoy the demon queen of fungi, myconids and probably others.

And then there's John Allegro. I wrote some fiction along these lines some time ago.

[Mysterioso]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ma...short_story%29

[GBSteve]

Surely Jeff VanderMeer has already done a large survey fungoid literature. And talking of which.

[silviamg]

Then if you include things that are probably fungi, like slime blob monsters that are probably either slime molds or inspired by them, the list gets longer. 85 entries isn't going to even scratch the surface; 850 might, but wouldn't be a fraction of comprehensive. You might want to limit yourselves to fungi in (written) horror fiction, or particularly notable fungi stories.

Come to think of it, technically every piece of media where beer plays a huge role would count...

I should have said we are looking for horror and dark fic with fungi. We are blogging about some of this stuff until the launch in December (and a bit beyond that), so while we won't do 850 entries, we might manage a couple a week and we want to see if there's new stuff we haven't heard about which might be interesting. So thanks, yup!

[silviamg]

"Surely Jeff VanderMeer has already done a large survey fungoid literature. And talking of which. "

I don't think he has done one. At least, it didn't come up when we were talking about getting him into this antho (and he said yes, and we danced a mushroom dance).