Recs if you like Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird)...
mushrooms, mycology, and fungi, oh my!
the title pretty much says it all, fic + nonfic featuring mushrooms and fungus!
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all things fungal horror โค๏ธโ there are a few mushroom and cottagegore lists around, but i wanted to make a comprehensive guide to the genre! suggestions welcome :)
Disorienting, Discombobulating & Disorderly Books
Weird Fiction Starter Pack
Much Ado About Shrooms
Cozy, Horror, Mystery, Adventure, Romance. As long as the book has shrooms as a major plot point, there is a place for it in this list.
Fungal Gothic
What if mushrooms were sentient and hangry?
Fungal Fiends
Books in which mushrooms take center stage
By no means exhaustive. Recommendations and suggestions welcome!
British Library - Tales of the Weird
Sporror (Spore and Mushroom horror) New and Old
I love mushroom-related horror, and these are all the books I have found that use spores, fungus, or mushrooms as the antithesis of the book's horror.
eco-horror
botanical, fungal, animal, and environmental horror ๐ชพ
fungal narratives
one day i will write a dissertation on this i swearโฆ.
Tales of the Weird
Every book in the British Library Tales of the Weird collection ๐
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