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Hungries

BooksInfected, still aliveA fungus2010 to today

Hungries are humans taken over by a fungus in M. R. Carey's novel, set in post-apocalyptic England. Most lose their minds and feed on the healthy, but the children born to them keep their intelligence. The novel ends with the spores released so that this second generation can rebuild the world.1

Battle it
First appeared
2014
Published June 2014; grew from the 2013 story Iphigenia in Aulis
Source work
The Girl with All the Gifts (2014)
M. R. Carey
Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
A fungus
A variant of the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
How you become one
Through blood and saliva, and later through airborne spores.
Intelligence
Mindless

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2014

Published June 2014; grew from the 2013 story Iphigenia in Aulis

field notes

What the sources say

1

Survivors mask their scent with a chemical called e-blocker1

2

A second generation exists: children born to hungries who kept some human behaviour, and who think and learn normally1

3

These children lose control only when they smell human scent1

4

Melanie, aged ten and highly intelligent, is ignored by ordinary hungries and can lead them1

5

The title is a loose translation of Pandora1

6

Filmed in 2016 by Colm McCarthy; the author appears as a background hungry1

Sources

  1. The Girl with All the Gifts - Wikipedia

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