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TOD 119 From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us Panel from NecronomiCon 2022

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 Last of Us (video game) 

The Last of Us (HBO series)

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)

Gaia (2021, movie Website)

‘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)

The Blob (1956, trailer)

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia  (Penguin-Random House, 2022)

The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert 

A Field in England (2013, trailer)

In the Earth (2021, trailer) 

The Witch (2015, 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