The Outer Dark presents “From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Eric Schaller and featuring Rick Claypool, Nicholas Kaufmann, Jess Lewis, and Douglas Wynne. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022.
Show Notes
The Outer Dark presents “From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Eric Schaller and featuring Rick Claypool, Nicholas Kaufmann, Jess Lewis, and Douglas Wynne. Mind control. Bodily infiltration. Altered states of consciousness. Zombification. Encounters with truly alien species. Fungal horrors abound in weird fiction and film. Our panelists take us on a tour of the strange world of spores, fruiting bodies, and vast clonal colonies, the symbiotes and parasites, toxins and pathogens, that have always occupied an important place in the annals of the weird. A little mycology and a lot of fiction are on your plate. Be sure and scroll down to the Additional Links for reading and viewing recommendations! Thank you to Niels Hobbs, K.H. Vaughan, Catherine Grant, and all the fabulous NecronomiCon 2022 team for allowing us to air this podcast’s content, which was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022.
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Additional Links
LISTEN: TOD 113 State of The Weird Roundtable 2022
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed (ECW Press, 2021)
Ambergris by Jeff Vandermeer, illustrations by Eric Schaller
Area X Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (Macmillan)
‘The Sky-Eaters’ Nest’ by Jess Lewis
‘Mondegreen’ by Jess Lewis (forthcoming in Nox Paredolia 2 by Nightscape Press)
‘The Time Walkers’ by Jess Lewis (forthcoming in Kaleidotrope)
The Mold Farmer by Rick Claypool (Six Gallery Press, 2020)
Tentacle Head by Rick Claypool (Bear Creek Press, 2022)
‘Time Out of Mind’ in Something in the Water and Other Stories by Douglas Wynne
The Hungry Earth by Nicholas Kaufmann (Macabre Ink, 2021)
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed, 2015)
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer (OSU Press, 2003)
The Grammar of Animacy by Robin Wall Kimmerer (video)
Fantastic Fungi (Netflix, 2019)
The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley (Titan, 2019)
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire, 2022)
The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey (Orbit, 2014, read a sample)
The Fireman by Joe Hill (Harper Collins, 2017)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia (Penguin-Random House, 2022)
The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
A Field in England (2013, trailer)
Show Credits
Hosts/Producers: Scott Nicolay and Anya Martin
Co-Host, News from The Weird: Justin Steele
Co-Host, Reviews from The Weird: Gordon B. White
Symposium Assistant Director: Melanie Crew
Symposium Programming Coordinator: Jess Lewis
Symposium Logistics: Melissa Eisner
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin
