Spores of Doom : Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird : 59

Author: Worth, Aaron

Classic horror & ghost stories

Published on 27 March 2025 by British Library Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of 'the British Library Tales of the Weird' series.

Paperback / softback | Illustrations
130 x 190 x 25 | 340g

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.