The FungusThe Fungus is a novel by Harry Adam Knight published in 1985.Plot summaryA scientist attempting to solve world hunger creates a fungus that mutates and spreads across all of England.ReceptionDave Langford reviewed The Fungus for White Dwarf #66, and called it "revolting".Reviews Review by Richard E. Geis in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1985 Review by Tom Whitmore in Locus, #345, October 1989 Review by Terry Broome in Paperback Inferno, #85 Review by Justin Marriott in ''Pulp Horror: All Reviews Special Edition''