[PW] ?short story id

[Bristol Library]

I think I saw this under the title "Attack of the Mushroom People" on late
night tv.

On 1/29/07, ash966 at bitstream.net <ash966 at bitstream.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> 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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