![]() ![]() ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 9.26. But more typically the selections, particularly John Langan’s “Hyphae” and Jeff VanderMeer’s “Corpse Mouth and Spore Nose,” emphasize gruesomely horrifying endings, a device that becomes numbingly predictable with repetition. Buy Fungi by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Editor), Orrin Grey (Editor) online at Alibris. There are standouts, including Polenth Blake’s darkly humorous “Letters to a Fungus,” in which a beleaguered homeowner writes letters to her nemesis, and receives one in return Nick Mamatas’s “The Shaft Through the Middle of It All,” which presents an unexpected response to gentrification and Jane Hertenstein’s “Wild Mushrooms,” with its moving portrait of a family of Czechoslovakian immigrants. The stories, which lack diversity both in their characters-the protagonists are overwhelmingly male-and in theme-most feature body horror or mind hijacking, or both-pass in a blur, leaving little doubt why no one has created such a collection before. ![]() Moreno-Garcia have assembled an unexceptional collection of 26 weird fiction tales starring fungi. Grey and Moreno-Garcia have assembled an unexceptional collection of 26 weird fiction tales starring fungi. In this new anthology, writers reach into the rich territory first explored by William Hope Hodgson a century ago: the land of the. Edited By Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. ![]()
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