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Hodgson - Fungus-Infested Human — Description

A couple of castaways find themselves stranded on an island infested with highly virulent lichen-like fungus which ends up covering entirety of their bodies before long.

"I saw something nodding between the oars. I thought of a sponge—a great, grey nodding sponge— The oars continued to ply. They were grey—as was the boat—and my eyes searched a moment vainly for the conjunction of hand and oar. My gaze flashed back to the—head. It nodded forward as the oars went backward for the stroke. Then the oars were dipped, the boat shot out of the patch of light, and the—the thing went nodding into the mist." <./i>

W. H. Hodgson, A Voice in the Night