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Story summary
- The emergence of the 'sporror' genre reflects a cultural fascination with fungi and societal anxieties.
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher predates modern fungal horror and uses fungi for atmosphere.
- Contemporary works like Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic revisit these themes and link fungi to colonialism and identity loss.
- The evolution shows genres adapting to current fears in a post-pandemic context of contagion and invasion.
