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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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Yellow and Red (1998) by Tanith Lee ★★★★☆
“... it looked as if it was sitting square on Gordon’s shoulders, with its tail coming down his collar, and its arm-things round his throat, and its face pressed close to his, as if it loved him and would never let go.”
I enjoyed this story of a family cursed by a monster long ago captured on film. Just because a camera cannot capture your soul does not mean it will not capture something else.
The Stiff and the Stile (1997) by Stepan Chapman ★★★★☆ That was an adorably strange short story featuring a mutant trash goblin. It’s a nursery rhyme for The Addams Family.
Finished! Thank you everyone for chatting fungi stories with me!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read/reviewed 19/22 stories that averaged out to 3.05, which I will round down to two stars for the DNF’s and my overall disappointment. The best thing about this anthology was the editor using it as experience to write Mexican Gothic, the best fungi story I read this month.
Cordyceps Zombii by Ann K. Schwader A nice poem I won’t rate.
Gamma by Laird Barron ★★★☆☆ That was a long suicide note from someone with a terrible childhood, an animal abuser father.
Out of the Blue by Ian Rogers ★★½☆☆ Goofy suburbanites face off against blue vampire fungus. With more cool factor, humor, and violence it could have been a passable episode of Supernatural.
Season Four if Wyona Earp is coming to ScyFy, and I’m crossing my fingers Netflix snags it too! https://youtu.be/J2DUqPTkhcA
First They Came For the Pigs by Chadwick Ginther DNFI do not like being thrown into the deep end of high fantasy - skip.
Go Home Again by Simon Strantzas ★★☆☆☆ “Closure was a lie the world wanted to believe.”
I sped through that unpleasant story about a girl returning to her old home and memories of abuse.
The Shaft Through the Middle of it All by Nick Mamatas ★★★½☆
Never mess with an ol’bruja’s garden.
Letters to a Fungus by Polenth Blake ★★★★★ That was short and hilarious. An escalating series of letters to an invading fungus during suburban warfare.
The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster Under Glass by Lisa M. Bradley ★★½☆☆ That was so odd. Never is it mentioned how, or why, there is a walking, taking, working bear with secret mushroom empathy. The rest of the story is about mushrooms eating oil spills then being eaten by people/bears.
A Monster in the Midst by Julio Toro San Martin ★★★★☆
A robot reveling in schadenfreude, you gotta love it. In a steampunk world where mushrooms have replaced trees one aristocrat hoped to save the world. His robot knew better, and quietly, maliciously, laughed all the way.
Dust From a Dark Flower by Daniel Mills ★★★☆☆ A fungal horror version of Typhoid Mary.
Where Dead Men Go to Dream by A.C. Wise★★★½☆
I’ve read many Wise short stories and he never fails to get less than three stars. Veiled in magic and symbolism this was a pretty basic story for everyone with a failed relationship - did you really see the other person or just your desires reflected back?
Yes, Congratulations, that was a great idea!
Our Stories Will Live Forever by Paul Tremblay ★★★★☆
That was lovely. What started off as a writer scaring himself on a plane took a sharp turn into the eternal. Definitely too sharp a turn, even for a short story, but I still enjoyed it.
Tubby McFungus, Fat From Fungus by Molly Tanzer and Jessie Bullington DNFThis was about cats making merkins. I could have lived without knowing what merkins were. I let this one go.
It's possible the God was meant to be real, it's possible he was killed too, but no outcome was a good one and it was presented in dismal fashion. I did not enjoy it.
Goatsbride by Richard Gavin ★★☆☆☆ I read this twice and still didn’t like it. Village girls are fed moldy wheat and fantasize about a goat lover. The men hang them.
