A new HBO hit show, called The Last of Us, is gaining popularity and possibly inspiring a fear of fungi. In the show, a species of fungus infects humans and turns them into living zombies who then ...

The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of mushroom-like fruiting bodies. These fungal parasites act as puppeteers, ...

In one episode, a swarm of formerly human mutants emerge from a suburban crater with faces that seem to have burst outward into the kind of mushroomy blossoms you’d find under a log in the forest.

Luke Dammann is a writer from the United States of America. Playing video games since before he can remember, writing about the next Halo or Call of Duty title comes naturally to Luke, who is always ...

The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of mushroom-like fruiting bodies. These fungal parasites act as puppeteers, ...