![]() ![]() Lavie Tadhar’s The White Hands… well, this author must have seen the call for submissions for this anthology and think to himself, “You know, I can be really quirky too!” This is because this story is practically a cliché in every anthology: it’s that story that offers various snippets and vignettes like disjointed entries from some “historical database” thingy. I like this one, it’s succinct, full of spooky tension, and offers a deliciously gruesome payoff for all that delicious build-up. Our protagonist comes to visit his estranged father, only to discover that his father’s longtime “eccentricity” and lack of personal hygiene, let’s just say, have mushroomed into some far more bizarre, one that will send that fellow and perhaps some readers screaming like that bloke at the end of Troll 2. Those sneaky editors, they want to fool readers browsing through the first few pages of this anthology into thinking it’s a really scary one, I’d bet. John Langan’s Hyphae is the most overt horror story of the lot. ![]() There are 23 stories here, so let’s not waste further words and get straight to them, or else I’d still be here come Christmas. Hence, Fungi: an anthology of horror stories of the mycelium kind. Whether it’s Zuggtmoy or Fungi from Yuggoth, the spreading rot of a fungal infestation is an integral trope of cosmic horror. Innsmouth Free Press, $15.00, ISBN 978-0-991Īh, fungus infestation. ![]() Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia ![]()
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