The Fungus

A brilliant London scientist breaks a genetic code that will end world hunger, but something goes terribly wrong in the lab and a plague is released upon Great Britain. The lucky ones die quickly, gruesomely consumed by a ravenous fungus, but others survive and are transformed into something . . . different. London is cut off from the rest of the world by encircling warplanes bent on stopping the spread of the deadly mutation by any means possible. Only a last-ditch suicide mission, a descent into the microbial hell of ground zero, can save mankind from its own invention.

With its breakneck pace and razor-sharp wit, THE FUNGUS is a horrific tour de force that also happens to be tremendously fun to read. A cult favorite since it was first published in the mid-eighties, this reissue includes a new introduction by the author and contains the hilarious HAK Letters as an addendum. Illustrated with electron microscope imagery.

What the critics say:

"THE FUNGUS is excellently bizarre. I loved it and you find it grows on you" -Brian Aldiss

"Loud, scary, sick fun. You will never again go near mushroom soup" -Kirkus Review

"A first-rate and vivid thriller" -Publishers Weekly

"A spectacularly gruesome nasty, written with inventiveness, grisly wit, and considerably more intelligence than almost any of its competitors"
-Ramsey Campbell

"It grabs, it's real and it keeps you reading. Taut, surprising, gripping" -Science Fiction Review