Fungi, the anthology of all things mycotic edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, has an official sporing date and a final cover for the paperback edition: November 2012 for the pre-sale and December 2012 for the official release. All books ship in December.
The paperback ($14.99) and e-book ($6.99) editions of Fungi will be identical. However, Fungi will also be available as a hardcover ($28.00) with three extra stories not included in the paperback and ten black-and-white illustrations by Bernie Gonzalez.
Fungi is an eclectic anthology with stories that run the gamut from horror to dark fantasy. A mushroom submarine, anthropomorphic cats, hallucinogenic fungi, mushroom people, private investigators, and mercenaries make for a very different kind of anthology.
The table of contents for the paperback and e-book is below:
- Ann K. Schwader, “Cordyceps zombii” (poem)
- A.C. Wise, “Where Dead Men Go to Dream”
- Andrew Penn Romine, “Last Bloom on the Sage”
- Camille Alexa, “His Sweet Truffle of a Girl”
- Chadwick Ginther, “First They Came for the Pigs”
- Daniel Mills, “Dust From a Dark Flower”
- Ian Rogers, “Out of the Blue”
- Jane Hertenstein, “Wild Mushrooms”
- Jeff Vandermeer, “Corpse Mouth and Spore Nose”
- John Langan, “Hyphae”
- Julio Toro San Martin, “A Monster In The Midst”
- Kris Reisz, “The Pilgrims of Parthen”
- Laird Barron, “Gamma”
- Lavie Tidhar, “The White Hands”
- Lisa M. Bradley, “The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster Under Glass”
- Molly Tanzer and Jesse Bullington, “Tubby McMungus, Fat From Fungus”
- Nick Mamatas, “The Shaft Through The Middle of It All”
- Paul Tremblay, “Our Stories Will Live Forever”
- Polenth Blake, “Letters to a Fungus”
- Richard Gavin, “Goatsbride”
- Simon Strantzas, “Go Home Again”
- Steve Berman, “Kum, Raúl (The Unknown Terror) – b. 1925, d. 1957”
- W.H. Pugmire, “Midnight Mushrumps”
The three extra stories included in the hardcover edition are:
- E. Catherine Tobler, “New Feet Within My Garden Go”
- J.T. Glover, “The Flaming Exodus of the Greifswald Grimoire”
- Claude Lalumière, “Big Guy and Little Guy’s Survivalist Adventure”
Look for the pre-sale later this fall.
Whoot. You’ve been putting out some great anthologies. I look forward to this one as well. I am glad to see that you are going with trade, ebook, and premium hardcover. This is the future of publishing; there is still room for the printed page in the future of publishing, it will be for the collectors and will have special incentives not available in the less expensive versions. Well done.
Thank you! We hope people will enjoy the “enhanced” version.