- Publisher: British Library
- Year: 2025
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 189x130mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9780712355629
- Product code: 545592
Spores of Doom
Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird
Ed. Aaron Worth New Paperback
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Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’ is followed by twelve tales that provide the ‘literary mycelium’ on which later fungal-based horror is based. Gathered from the 19th and 20th centuries, they range from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Fall of the House of Usher to lesser known examples such as Robert Aickman’s The Stains and take in body horror, dread and possession.
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From the fungus-webbed House of Usher to the maddening, fungus-like wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic tale of madness, and Ray Bradbury's account of insidious mushroom dispersal via the US postal system, weird fiction has harboured a thriving culture of fungal horrors throughout the past two centuries.
With stories of mycological possession alongside dark, pulpy science fiction monstrous fruiting bodies run amok, this new anthology collects the classic with the lost and obscure to trace our fascination with a spore-infested branch of British and American fiction.
With stories of mycological possession alongside dark, pulpy science fiction monstrous fruiting bodies run amok, this new anthology collects the classic with the lost and obscure to trace our fascination with a spore-infested branch of British and American fiction.
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Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’ is followed by twelve tales that provide the ‘literary mycelium’ on which later fungal-based horror is based. Gathered from the 19th and 20th centuries, they range from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic <i>The Fall of the House of Usher</i> to lesser known examples such as Robert Aickman’s <i>The Stains</i> and take in body horror, dread and possession.
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