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.
created by Lavendermenace13
last updated October, 2026
Mushroom Blues
Adrian M. Gibson
The Gulp (Tales From the Gulp, #1)
Alan Baxter
The Girl at the End of the World: A Post-Apocalypse Survival Thriller
Richard Levesque
Finch (Ambergris, #3)
Jeff VanderMeer
Pedro the Vast
Simón López Trujillo
Fruiting Bodies: Stories
Kathryn Harlan
Fruiting Bodies
Ashley Robin Franklin
Symbiotes
Amanda Linnemeyer
The Spore Queen
Debra Castaneda
House of Rot
Danger Slater
Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Aaron Worth
Green Fuse Burning
Tiffany Morris
The Voice in the Night
William Hope Hodgson
The Blooming
Erica Ferencik
Red Rabbit Ghost
Jen Julian
Ghost Music
An Yu
Root Rot
Saskia Nislow
The Fungus
Harry Adam Knight
The Genius Plague
David Walton
Grave Matter
Karina Halle
The Beauty
Aliya Whiteley
A Botanical Daughter
Noah Medlock
Graveyard Shift
M.L. Rio
A Scent of New-Mown Hay
John Blackburn
What Feeds Below
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi
Brian Lumley
Evolution's Shore (Chaga #1)
Ian McDonald
Wife Shaped Bodies
Laura Cranehill
Morsel
Carter Keane
Earthly Bodies
Susan Earlam
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