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The Voice in the Night

The story has been adapted a number of times, most prominently in the 1963 Japanese film Matango.

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John Brosnan's novel The Fungus from 1985 has a similar plot, where mutated fungi destroy England, and those infected die or become mutated mushroom people, depending on what kind of fungus they have become infected with.

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Weird fungi in the shape of animals or humans are a recurring theme in Hodgson's stories and novels; for example, in the novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" the survivors of a shipwreck come across tree-like plants that mimic (or, perhaps, have absorbed) birds and people.

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The second filmed adaptation was the Japanese motion picture Matango (1963), shown on American television under the title Attack of the Mushroom People.

Voice in the Night

:"Voice in the Night" was also an episode in Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Suspicion adapted from The Voice in the Night, a short story by William Hope Hodgson

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