[PW] ?short story id

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On Mon, January 29, 2007 10:08 am, Dennis Lien said:
> At 09:59 AM 1/29/2007, you wrote:
>>I remember a very creepy short story about a man discovered in a rowboat.
>>He is covered with fungus/mold and relates his story to a ship's crew. He
>>refuses to come on board for fear of infecting them but asks for food to
>>take back to his wife (?) who has also been infected.  I remember that
>> was
>>in a collection of Alfred Hitchcock stories but, sorry, I don't remember
>> the
>>author or title.
>
>
> That one is "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson.

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For the archives, the movie version is _Matango_, AKA _The Fungus of
Terror_. An entertaining Japanese horror B-movie from the 60's. I didn't
know it was based on a British short story until I checked imdb just now:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057295/

--Andrea Herman
  St. Paul Public Library

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