SOURCES:
"The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson (The Blue Magazine, November 1907)
"IT" by Theodore Sturgeon (Unknown, August 1940)
"Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury (Galaxy 1962)
"The House of Cthulhu" by Brian Lumley (Whispers, July 1973)
"Fruiting Bodies" by Brian Lumley (Weird Tales, Summer 1988)

DESCRIPTION: "Even as the fancy flashed into my brain, there was a slight, sickening noise of tearing, and I saw that one of the branch-like arms was detaching itself from the surrounding grey masses, and coming towards me.  The head of the thing — a shapeless grey ball, inclined in my direction." ("A Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson)

NOTES: The grand-daddy of killer mold stories, it has yet to be surpassed. Brian Lumley wrote a similar thing called "Fruiting Bodies" but my preferwnce is for Hodgson.

HISTORY: Made into the 1968 Japanese film Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People) with its fascinatingly bad soundtrack.

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