Showing results for "Fungi" in Literature & Fiction

When a brilliant scientist seeking to solve the problem of world hunger tries to create giant mushrooms through genetic manipulation, what could possibly go wrong? But those who die quickly are the lucky ones. Those who survive infection by the fungus will be transformed into something unthinkably monstrous...

Thirteen terrifying tales from the master of horror who created the nationally bestselling Necroscope series. The title story, "Fruiting Bodies," in which a small village slowly disappears, won the British Fantasy Award.

Although he's best known for his weird fiction writings, for much of his literary life, H.P. Lovecraft considered himself primarily a poet. Fungi from Yuggoth is his most well-known work of poetry; in it, he combines his taste for cosmic horror with his appreciation of the antiquarian and seasons it with his inimitable dry, dark wit.

Any 1888. Pirineus occidentals. Un militant anarquista, anomenat Ric-Ric, arriba a una petita, remota i oblidada vall pirinenca tot fugint de la policia. Allà coneixerà el cap dels contrabandistes, en Cassian, i la mestra de l'escola, la Mailís, una dona que no combrega amb la mentalitat conservadora dels habitants de la vall. Però tot canvia quan en Ric-Ric, accidentalment, desperta unes criatures extraordinàries, sobrehumanes, que alguns associen amb els menairons de les llegendes locals.