Hungries
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
When did it first appear?
2014Published June 2014; grew from the 2013 story Iphigenia in Aulis
What the sources say
Survivors mask their scent with a chemical called e-blocker1
A second generation exists: children born to hungries who kept some human behaviour, and who think and learn normally1
These children lose control only when they smell human scent1
Melanie, aged ten and highly intelligent, is ignored by ordinary hungries and can lead them1
The title is a loose translation of Pandora1
Filmed in 2016 by Colm McCarthy; the author appears as a background hungry1
Sources
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