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Fruiting Bodies

Brian Lumley

First published 1988
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

An Englishman visits the seacoast town where his family used to live, where the sole remaining resident takes him for a tour of the buildings undermined by the sea, and crumbling with dry rot.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1989 British Fantasy Award Best Short Story Winner

Publications (17)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1988 Weird Tales, Summer 1988 Terminus MAGAZINE 68
1988 Weird Tales, Summer 1988 Terminus MAGAZINE 68
October 1989 The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII DAW Books Anthology 15
October 1989 The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII DAW Books Anthology 15
January 1993 Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi Roc UK Collection 1
February 1993 Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi Tor Collection 15
September 1995 The Best of Weird Tales Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 52
1996 The Best of Weird Tales Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 52
May 1996 Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi Tor Collection
November 2004 The Mammoth Book of New Terror Robinson Anthology |2
December 2004 The Mammoth Book of New Terror Carroll & Graf Anthology 3
August 2011 The Mammoth Book of New Terror Robinson Anthology
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Body Horror Robinson Anthology 266
April 2012 The Mammoth Book of Body Horror Running Press Anthology 266
August 2012 No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories Subterranean Press Collection 13
December 2013 No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories Subterranean Press Collection |2
July 2019 No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories Crossroad Press Collection |2