Fungal Horror and Popular Culture
As editors of the planned Palgrave Handbook on Fungal Horror in Popular Culture, which has 33 commissioned chapters, Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden seek approximately 10 additional original essays.
We are primarily looking for chapters on fungal horror in non-Anglophone material, but also welcome studies of less mainstream Anglophone texts.
Fungi are entangled in our lives, as food, as medicine or drugs, but also as parasites and agents of destruction, such as black mould, dry rot and cordyceps, the zombie fungus. This entanglement carries over into popular culture, where fungi are used to carry out different kinds of work, articulating deep seated fears and desires, functioning as a threat to, but perhaps also a saviour of, an embattled humanity on the brink of possible extinction.
This edited volume will be the first full-length scholarly study of fungal horror in popular culture such as, but not limited to, literature, film, television, comics/graphic novels, computer games, art and memes. We invite contributors to approach the topic broadly, both in terms of material analysed and in the themes explored.
The chapters should be c. 7 000 words, including endnotes and bibliography.
Send your abstract, of no more than 300 words, together with a brief biography to Berit Åström berit.astrom@umu.se and Katarina Gregersdotter katarina.gregersdotter@umu.se by 1 June, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than June 27, 2025.
Deadline for submission of completed manuscripts is 15 January, 2026.
Last updated April 10, 2025
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