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* Jonathan Shriek in Jeff VanderMeer's ''[[Ambergris|Shriek: An Afterword]]'' allows himself to be infected by a fungus to infiltrate the secret tunnels of the Graycaps. What starts out as bit of mould under his fingernails ends up in a state where he looks like an overweight middle-aged man as long as he concentrates, but if he allows the fungus to emerge, tendrils are involved. And occasionally he'll mention a bodypart like his ear, and comments that he actually lost it ages ago; it's just fungus mimicing the original form.

** The following book, ''[[Ambergris|Finch]]'', features Partials, kind of fungus-cyborgs that go through a similar process as Jonathan, but specifically allow a fungus eat out one of their eyes, and replace it with a spore-based camera.

* Dr.Krok from "[[Comrade Death]]", accidentally came into contact with a single, trivially small drop of the new poison he created. His body was bloated and deformed until he resembled a hippopotamus in the shape of a man, with bulging red eyes, his nose having been swallowed by his monstrous face, and no teeth. Had the drop been larger his body would have dissolved into liquid.

* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] is fond of [[Body Horror]]: