The Voice in the Night

"The Voice in the Night"
Short story by William Hope Hodgson
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction, horror
Publication
Published inBlue Book Magazine
Publication dateNovember 1907

"The Voice in the Night" is a short story by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in the November 1907 edition of Blue Book Magazine. The story has been adapted a number of times, most prominently in the 1963 Japanese film Matango.

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.