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Fungi by Orrin Grey5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. 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. by Robert Westall and Orrin Grey Sold by: Services LLC Dec 11, 2015. 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. ![]() Fungi (2012) with Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jazz Age Cthulhu (2014) with Jennifer Brozek. SPECIAL EDITION HARDCOVER: Contains three stories and 10 illustrations not included in paperback or e-book edition. Grey and Moreno-Garcia have assembled an unexceptional collection of 26 weird fiction tales starring fungi. Author: Orrin Grey Author Record 127658 Legal Name: Grey, Orrin. ![]()
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