SOURCES: "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson (The Blue Magazine, November 1907)

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.